Barbara Simpson - Babe In The Bunker Radio Show - 15 February 2004

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Barbara Simpson - Babe In The Bunker Radio Show - 15 February 2004

Show Notes For 15 February 2004

• Talking About Proposition 56
  • Raising the 87 cent cigarrette tax to 1.97 a pack
  • Big business are not liking this. Big corporations are paying huge taxes already, and this proposition opens the door to lots of new taxes because of the lowering to 55% of the votes needed to pay taxes. We can have an out of control budget that can get passed because of dropping the vote amount to 55%. Alcohol drinkers pay 294 million in excise use taxes this year. A use tax for gasoline is 18 cents a gallon. The big corporations have a right to oppose this, since these costs are passed along to consumers and make the good more expensive. But it is not just big corporations, it is also small business and taxpayers associations that are also against this.

Caller Harold:

• Buys his cigarettes from the Internet to avoid the high taxes. The US government tried to get the names of who bought the cigarettes, and they don't tell anyone.
• There is a movement to try and tax purchases on the internet, and they think there is a great pool of money waiting.

There is huge intrusion into our private lives to maintain the status quo, and increase the bureaucracy. For example the school: A lot of the teachers are not well qualified, since they are a product of the system that is broken.

Proposition 56 makes it so much easier to pass new chases, and 55% is not enough of a majority to protect us from new taxes.

Caller:

• Too many busy beavers in Sacramento. They are busy thinking up new services, but the services need to be cut. A service is something of value, but the caller wonders what is of real value to most of these services. We pay for food, rent, garbage, and roads, what else do we get that is of value. What about making the legislature go part time.

What ever happened to the paperless office? Where is it? Now we have more paper, and we have to pay for all the ink!

Downtown Seal Beach will be the last of the communities with free parking. They are putting in 330 parking meters, to raise $500,000 a year. In San Francisco, it's 25 cents for 7.5 minutes for parking, or $2 an hour!

Be careful what you pray for, you might get it.... - Barbara Simpson show sign off

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