I'm a teacher and I support Prop 30. And yes, I've been criticized for supporting an additional tax. So let's look at the real cost of Prop 30 for average people, like most of you and me.
I don't know about you, but my family doesn't make $500,000 a year, so we would only have to pay the additional ¼ percent in sales tax.
I'm going to assume most of you will only have to pay the sales tax, as well. So what's next? Look at your monthly spending and what items are actually taxed: not food, mortgage, or utilities. We're talking about things like clothes, gas, personal items, maybe something for your home. For most of us, our families probably spend less than $1000 per month on those items.
So what is ¼ percent of $1000? Two dollars and fifty cents. You read that right, just $2.50. An average family, under the circumstances I described, would pay an additional $2.50 per month to help save education in our community.
That's why I support Prop 30, and I ask you to consider that when you are voting. Can you then say the students of La Mesa and Spring Valley aren't worth it?
Every election we hear it again and it's Hundreds and they all add up. LM has already boosted it's sales tax, LA and many more cities are considering doing the same. Sales tax is approaching 10%, TEN PERCENT. That's after State and Federal income tax, property tax, capital gains tax, TAX TAX TAX! When will all the 8 cents a day add up to every expendable dollar? How much do they need? It's always MORE MORE MORE. Never cut, just go after more taxes. Those people that make over $500k are leaving this State because of this ridiculous notion that we can tax ourselves out of debt. Those are the people I work for and when they stop spending money here I will have to leave. Please show me where this added tax is guaranteed to go to "the students of La Mesa and Spring Valley" because it's not! It will go into the general fund and continue to be WASTED by the State. Have you ever heard of any City, State or Country that have TAXED their way to prosperity?
"If You Have The Ability to Create Your Own Currency, How Can You Ever Be Broke? Let's say that you have the ability to print your currency using your computer printer, and every merchant accepted your printouts as a valid exchange for goods and services. You need to pick up your dry cleaning? You printout a $20 bill and your cleaners hand over your garments without question. Same would be true for your mortgage, groceries, car note, etc. Your creditors even accept your printouts as payment on your debts. Given this, how can you ever be broke? Answer, you cannot be broke. The U.S. government is not in debt simply because it can create currency to pay off the debt, and our creditors gladly accept our currency as payment on our debts. You see, the world needs our dollars because the world needs oil, and in order to buy oil, you need dollars, which means that the world needs to stockpile dollars, and that means that the U.S. can print all of the money that it wants without incurring massive hikes in interest rates to attract lenders...." http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1600092
A public employee fed by the very funds Jason wants to take away from us.