<p>Call upon Cthulhu to wreak havoc and start the world again!</p>
<p>^the whole idea is to tax oil companies, not just any random business. Oil companies can’t just get up and move away like any other business, because the oil won’t follow them. Even rightwing Texas has oil severances taxes to fund Texas schools and universities. California Republican legislators (contrary to public intuition) are actually the most right-wing state legislators in the country. They are lethally allergic to any and all taxes and they are the reason why the state is cutting so many progams (including education). Due to excessive gerrymandering, California’s state legislature districts are basically permanently split ~63% to ~37%; 99% of the time one party keeps all the seats it already has. </p>
<p>It is absolutely absurd that a 37% minority can hold up the will of the 63% majority, and the only way to fix that is to repeal the 2/3rds rule set up by Proposition 13.</p>
<p>OY! Do you really know a thing about politics? I mean really? Just give up while you’re ahead in your brain. </p>
<p>Have you ever talked to anyone outside of your left-wing fringe circles? You keep talking about taxes. Tax this, tax that. People are SICK of taxes! They do not like them and they do not want more of them. </p>
<p>You pass the whole prop 13 crap and we’re essentially going to have one train of thought running the whole state–and as we’ve seen from prior stints on both sides at the national and state level, that doesn’t work too well at all. </p>
<p>The Republicans in the legislator have been given a mandate by their constituents to NOT vote on any more tax increases. They won’t stand for it, and if these representatives do vote for increases they will no longer be in office, it’s that simple. We saw the revolts after the crap they passed last year. There is a breaking point with the people, and if some of the fringe here get their way, that will be sooner rather than later. </p>
<p>Maybe it’s time to cut some of the entitlement handout programs that those on the left love. Maybe it’s time to cut Medicaid, EBT, WIC, etc. and start putting more of the onus on the individual–like the way the founders intended. </p>
<p>Doubt many like you would want that though. After all, generational welfare is your biggest voting block.</p>
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This isn’t about taxing people, this is about taxing fat cat oil.</p>
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I don’t know who taught you math, but 37% is much more of a fringe than 63%. I am not quite sure the Republicans in the legislature were voted on by mandate to avoid all tax hikes (even ones that there constituents won’t even see). Excessive gerrymandering has allowed state Republicans to get excessively right-wing, regardless what their constituents believe, (yes, on the other hand we have very liberal Democrats, but our Democrats are in line with Dems from other blue states like Washington and New York). I am sure a large number of the Republican legislatures come from suburban districts, where even conservative parents of college students would much prefer taxing big oil over giving them fee hikes.</p>
<p>Seriously, what is the difference between a UC fee hike (forced by underfunding) and tax hike, there is none.</p>
<p>I think you’re both wrong, but I would like if someone could dig out some numbers. Here’s what I could find in 1 min of google searching:
<a href=“http://www.ccsce.com/pdf/Numbers-oct07-HighTaxState.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ccsce.com/pdf/Numbers-oct07-HighTaxState.pdf</a></p>
<p>The corporate tax is pretty small. I don’t even know where “gas taxes” are, but I doubt they will add up to more than a billion here or there. Really, CA is dependent on rich people paying the top tax rate. I doubt most of them will move if we jack up the tax rate another 1-2% (although on a 10-yr time scale, a higher tax rate might discourage new businesses that already were tempted by other locales that are dangling tax incentives). My understanding has been that prop 13’s cap on property taxes was much more damaging.</p>
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I guess you haven’t seen this graph [FiveThirtyEight:</a> Politics Done Right: Scozzafava is a Conservative Republican (by New York State standards)](<a href=“Scozzafava is a Conservative Republican (by New York State standards) | FiveThirtyEight”>http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/10/scozzafava-is-conservative-republican.html). California Democrats are in line with Democrats from other liberal states (that is to say, California democrats are nothing out of the ordinary). Californian Republicans are the most extreme Republicans in the country, instead of the centrist position that would be expected of Republicans from Blue states.</p>
<p>Most extreme? Why, because they will not follow along and pass tax cuts? </p>
<p>I see the point you’re trying to prove, but it doesn’t hold much water.</p>
<p>LOLZ. I know someone who got arrested yesterday just for standing there recording the protest in San Francisco. hahahaha</p>
<p>You should note that I’m not communist, socialist, or capitalist. I believe a mixed economy is best, some areas should be socialist and some capitalist.</p>
<p>Uhh… I hope you all know why “black ninjas” were out there. It is because of the racist events that have been occurring recently (particularly at UCSD). </p>
<p>Those were not Black ninjas but was a Black Out in protest of those racist events. I hope you all realize that because it wasn’t very obvious from the posts here. </p>
<p>Surely walking a little bit out of your way one day isn’t as bad as dealing with a lifetime of societal racism?</p>
<p>we’ll always be dealing with racism. it’s not like a crm either. one day isn’t going to change anything except where i’ll walk.</p>
<p>those black ninja/activist were more of an annoyance than anything else…there’s racism great, no one really cares that you put tape over your mouth. Let me walk to god damned dwinelle and not take the scenic route.</p>
<p>The funniest part about the whole thing is that it was setup and planned by a black rapper.</p>
<p>Why is it funny</p>
<p>because black rappers are not usually law abiding, upstanding citizens that deserve respect.</p>
<p>Right, of course.</p>
<p>If this is representative of the kind of people at Cal then thats one easier school to cross off the list.</p>
<p>It would be ignorant to assume that just because the actions of a group of people are highly publicized, that group is representative of the majority of students at Cal.</p>
<p>Not the black people, the people posting here</p>
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<p>I’m surprised by how little I care.</p>
<p>Maybe you shouldn’t give your university a bad image by posting **** like that</p>