Post by The Big Dog on Aug 8, 2008 14:18:09 GMT -5
Robin Hood? Or maybe Rotten Hood is a little more appropriate. And for any of you that might have voted for Prop 10 a few years back... how's it working for you?
This is yet another big part of what is really and truly wrong with California, why the state is nearly in receivership and why taxpayers are, largely, getting good and fully fed up with the socialist agenda and government taking more and more of everyone's money to no particularly good end.
Remember this story the next time you step into the booth to vote up or down on another "sin tax".
A Reverse Robin Hood
The Reiner Commission squirrels away $2.4 BILLION while the State of California is billions, perhaps $20 billion in a financial Black Hole
By Raoul Lowery Contreras, CalNews.com
August 4, 2008
Movie Director Rob Reiner objected to my presence in the same room as he pushed for his cigarette-taxing Proposition 10, ten years ago, to the California Parent Teachers Association.
Reiner emotionally, almost tearfully spoke about how California poor children would benefit by taxing cigarettes 50-cents a pack. Reiner’s tax scam passed by 1% of over 7-million votes and raises about $580 million annually with 80 percent going the county commissions and 20 percent to the state commission.
Poor children would not see the money. Middle class and wealthy suburban children would have money rained on them by Reiner and Prop.10 crafted county and state commissions. So, I asserted in a fit of clairvoyance.
Reiner, I declared, was a Robin Hood-in-reverse.
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San Francisco Chronicle: "Scores of savvy San Francisco parents have tapped a pot of taxpayer dollars for everything from children's ice skating lessons and Monterey Bay Aquarium field trips to supplies for Halloween parties and chartered buses to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield."
A sampling of the grants from the Chronicle:
"Multi-Family First Time Camping Experience" included a camping lesson and overnight trip to Big Sur for six families.
"Couples Travel and Learn Together" included an overnight stay at the Four Points Sheraton in Pleasanton, where couples from Chinatown took marriage workshops. It also included $250 in Target gift cards."
"Families of La Piccola Scuola Italiana" (pre-school in Italian, RLC) included holiday party space rental and the purchase of a Babbo Natale (Italian version of Santa Claus) costume."
San Francisco parents (the Chronicle writes) get Parent Action Grants of up to $3,000 the first year and up to $4,000 for each of the next two. Personal income "doesn't matter because the program isn't based on financial need."
The Reiner Commission squirrels away $2.4 BILLION while the State of California is billions, perhaps $20 billion in a financial Black Hole
By Raoul Lowery Contreras, CalNews.com
August 4, 2008
Movie Director Rob Reiner objected to my presence in the same room as he pushed for his cigarette-taxing Proposition 10, ten years ago, to the California Parent Teachers Association.
Reiner emotionally, almost tearfully spoke about how California poor children would benefit by taxing cigarettes 50-cents a pack. Reiner’s tax scam passed by 1% of over 7-million votes and raises about $580 million annually with 80 percent going the county commissions and 20 percent to the state commission.
Poor children would not see the money. Middle class and wealthy suburban children would have money rained on them by Reiner and Prop.10 crafted county and state commissions. So, I asserted in a fit of clairvoyance.
Reiner, I declared, was a Robin Hood-in-reverse.
<< snipped >>
San Francisco Chronicle: "Scores of savvy San Francisco parents have tapped a pot of taxpayer dollars for everything from children's ice skating lessons and Monterey Bay Aquarium field trips to supplies for Halloween parties and chartered buses to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield."
A sampling of the grants from the Chronicle:
"Multi-Family First Time Camping Experience" included a camping lesson and overnight trip to Big Sur for six families.
"Couples Travel and Learn Together" included an overnight stay at the Four Points Sheraton in Pleasanton, where couples from Chinatown took marriage workshops. It also included $250 in Target gift cards."
"Families of La Piccola Scuola Italiana" (pre-school in Italian, RLC) included holiday party space rental and the purchase of a Babbo Natale (Italian version of Santa Claus) costume."
San Francisco parents (the Chronicle writes) get Parent Action Grants of up to $3,000 the first year and up to $4,000 for each of the next two. Personal income "doesn't matter because the program isn't based on financial need."
This is yet another big part of what is really and truly wrong with California, why the state is nearly in receivership and why taxpayers are, largely, getting good and fully fed up with the socialist agenda and government taking more and more of everyone's money to no particularly good end.
Remember this story the next time you step into the booth to vote up or down on another "sin tax".
