Updated at 5:14 a.m. Wednesday.
California voters approved new term limits for lawmakers but turned down an effort to tax cigarettes.
With 100 percent of precincts reported, 61.3 percent of voters supported Proposition 28, the change in term limits, with 38.7 percent opposed.
Proposition 28 reduces the number of years a lawmaker can serve in the state Legislature from 14 years to 12. However, it allows lawmakers to serve in the Assembly or Senate for 12 years.
Currently, lawmakers can serve two four-year terms in the Senate or three two-year terms in the Assembly.
When it comes to Proposition 29, 51.4 percent of voters opposed the cigarettes tax while 48.5 percent supported.
Proposition 29 would've increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 87 cents to $1. The estimated $735 million revenue would be used for cancer and smoking research as well as tobacco law enforcement.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31262
Now in this case I think about a couple of janitors, one a public employee and one in the nonunion private sector. They both have the same skill level. Do you think, for a micro second, that the private sector employee get's the same pay and benefits as the public sector employee? The fact is they don't and here's the rub, the private sector janitor is contributing to the pay of the public sector janitor. The same holds for all skill levels. I pray for "a man on a horse".
12/01/11 - ck # 79535 - gregory wade - $420 - 2011 hc reimbursement 12/01/11 - ck # 79540 - jacqueline m hald - $420 - 2011 hc reimbursement 12/01/11 - ck # 79555 - thomas clark - $420 - 2011 hc reimbursement 12/12/11 - ck # 79608 - linda leichtle - $420 - 2011 hc reimbursement 12/15/11 - ck # 79628 - gary brown - $420 - 2011 hc reimbursement
30 years ago a private sector janitor's job paid a living wage and offered benefits that were better than the public sector....times have changed, but it's not because of lack of money...it's because of greed, whether it's in the public or private sector....
but what about the rest of you...kevin, tom, things...how do you pay for your health care?
the money should be put into immediate infrastructure needs ...or into the general fund...
The last president that could ride a horse was Reagan. I think it may be best to have Romney saddle up and see if he can ride this bronc and get it under control.
I had $250k in spine surgery and the doc wouldn't take chickens.
People have figured out it is time to starve the beast.
Part of the money raised through the sale of the plates was to fund scholarships for children of California residents who perished in the attacks, while the majority — 85 percent — was to help fund anti-terrorism efforts. But a review by The Associated Press of the USD 15 million collected since lawmakers approved the "California Memorial Scholarship Program" shows only a small fraction of the money went to scholarships. While 40 percent has funded anti-terror training programs, USD 3 million was raided by Gov. Jerry Brown and his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to plug the state's budget deficit. Millions more have been spent on budget items with little relation to direct threats of terrorism, including livestock diseases and workplace safety. Moreover, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has been advertising the plates as helping the children of Sept. 11 victims, even though the state stopped funding the scholarship program seven years ago. The specialty plate fund continues to take in USD 1.5 million a year" http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/ap-exclusive-calif-9-11-fund-raided-deficits-070528674.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US
booze is costing our society a fortune in health and law enforcement costs...yet their tax is a fraction of tobacco's tax.... you only voted for it because you don't smoke...but we've got to start allocating our taxes to the costs to the community and country, and not just vote on something because it's a 'cause'...
I hate to tell you this, but your government retirement benefits are lucrative to most hard working people in the private sector. Speaking of private industry, do you have any idea what the "bottom line" means. Of course, being in an environment that only receives could be confusing. I do hope you have a great retirement, just as I have had. However, I do hope they don't have to replace you and many others on the way out. Put he money back into the economy and kick start the cycle to fiscal responsibility. My last word.
If we ALL worked for the gubment we could all have unconditional employment and sweet pensions.......Problem solved !!!!