California puts the squeeze on struggling households

“It’s only a one cent increase on the dollar for sales tax.  It’s just another quarter percent increase on income taxes.  The Car Tax will only be about twice what you already pay.”  These kinds of statements prove that politicians are indeed hopelessly out of touch with the daily struggles of an average family, especially when they paint the massive $13 billion in new taxes as inconsequential, attempting to convince us that the hikes will be barely noticeable to our bottom line.

Voters need to wise up and see through the deceiving political rhetoric being heaped onto the airwaves, newspaper, and internet.  If Proposition 1A is approved in the coming Special Election in May, taxpayers will be stuck with the $13 billion in tax increases for an additional two years.  Like the prolonged recession in the 1990’s, which was directly caused by tax increases, Californians will be subject to more economic woes following this latest round of tax hikes.

If voters pass this Prop 1A, the average California family of four, struggling to make ends meet with an income of $70,000, will pay an additional $1,000 in new taxes annually.  Families will pay $200 more per year per child, nearly twice as much per car for the car tax, a 13% increase in the sales tax, and higher income taxes across the board.

Tax and spend politicians in the Legislatures characterize each of these taxes as a small increase, but as you can plainly see, all of these “small” taxes add up to a huge burden for most Californians.  Keep in mind these taxes are separate from the looming increases planned by President Obama.

This means less money for your family and more money for government bureaucrats and the public employee unions who represent them.  California’s hardworking families are being asked to make sacrifices by cutting back on basic necessities—groceries, gasoline, heating, and electricity—while government will be as fat as ever during this time of recession.

In fact, despite the supposed “deep cuts” and hiring freezes put into place, California’s government has actually increased in size!  So much for the threat that California would fall off the edge of a cliff without new taxes.  This bait and switch is not only outrageous but insulting to Californians, who were told that state government was on the verge of collapse when in fact it was expanding.

People are losing their homes and their jobs as life savings rapidly shrink.  The $1,000 being sent to Sacramento could go a long way in helping families get through the economic downturn.  But if the Democrats and their Republican enablers have their way, the daily struggles of average Californians will only get worse.  It’s time to hold the government accountable and demand that lawmakers cut the state’s budget before cutting into yours.

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