{"id":2776,"date":"2003-01-10T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2003-01-10T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T15:47:17","slug":"the-thrill-jill-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"THE THRILL JILL CULT"},"content":{"rendered":"

My future-stalking-object Jill Stewart has surfaced, with the center of her brain that produces smart vitriol fully intact!!
\nCheck out her take<\/a> on the budget crisis:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Hill, the state legislative analyst, who strives not to side with Democrats or Republicans, pointedly explained that corporations comprise only a small part of the roughly $70 billion tax revenue–roughly $6 billion.
\nThat was a shock to some Assembly members. Hill noted, again rather pointedly, that \u0093the top 5 percent of Californians pay 42 percent of the income taxes\u0094 and that just 10 percent pay 80 percent of income taxes. Furthermore, large numbers of millionaires and those making $100,000 or more have vanished. Some went broke, but others left for states that don\u0092t make them carry as big of a load, like tax-free (and booming) Nevada.
\nThe packed audience at the special hearing appeared stunned. The message was clear: There aren\u0092t enough corporations and rich around to pour huge new tax dollars into state coffers and save us.
\nSo what was the first act announced by the obviously bewildered Jenny Oropeza, a Long Beach Democrat who clearly is in over her head as chairwoman of the Assembly Budget Committee? I thought that perhaps Oropeza should announce the creation of a job-stimulus subcommittee or a budget-cutbacks task force.
\nInstead, she formed the Working Group on Revenue–a crew of Democrats now meeting in secret to figure out ways to tax corporations, the rich, the middle class, Internet sales, retail sales, wine sales, small-service businesses and anything else the group can think of.
\nI\u0092m a Democrat who has had a snootful of stupidity from Democrats in recent years. Thinking that maybe I was being too judgmental, I called some leading Democratic thinkers to get their read on the message coming out of the Legislature.
\nAl Checchi, who ran against Davis five years ago and has been watching the debacle, told me, \u0093They have thrown the money away, completely distorted the expenditures on public-sector things like huge employee pensions they cannot afford, and they will run deficits of $10 billion or more next year as well. They should stop worrying about finding new taxes that are barely going to address this and deal with the true cause: their incredible overspending.\u0094
\nNot likely, considering a key member of the Working Group on Revenue is one of the most anti-middle-class, capitalist-loathing big spenders in higher public office in California, Jackie Goldberg of Los Angeles, who one legislative aide told me \u0093has already taken control of the working group\u0094 even though she is not its chairperson. Goldberg is, officially, the Stupidest Well-Spoken Person I Know. She hatched policies that left a wake of misery in her Hollywood City Council district. My nickname for her–the Dominatrix of the Los Angeles City Council–should travel well now that she is pushing people around in Sacramento. This feminist used to corner the men in Los Angeles City Hall and cry like a baby to get her way. <\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aaah. A drop of intelligent bitters in my afternoon soda water. Refreshing\u0085now go read the whole thing!
\nI wondered why Layne was moving to Nevada!! Blogging must pay better than I thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My future-stalking-object Jill Stewart has surfaced, with the center of her brain that produces smart vitriol fully intact!! Check out her take on the budget crisis: Elizabeth Hill, the state legislative analyst, who strives not to side with Democrats or Republicans, pointedly explained that corporations comprise only a small part of the roughly $70 billion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}