COUNTY OF SAN MATEO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JUMPS ON TAX RAPE BANDWAGON. WILL YOU SIT BACK & ALLOW SAN MATEO COUNTY TO BE DESTROYED BY THESE ANTI TAXPAYER POLITICIANS?
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 10:48 AM -----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you had the opportunity to save your city or county from being destroyed by a hostile force would you make the sacrifices necessary to do so or would you ignore the situation while you watched the destruction? The time has come for you to make that choice...................................................
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by Bill Baker, J.D.
Editor and Publisher, The San Bruno Beacon
Taxpayers are living through what may be the worst depression since the 1929 Depression. America's middle class is being wiped out. It is both unconscionable and insane at this time for any Federal, State or local government entity to waste taxpayer money pursuing higher taxes. This type of reckless taxation does significantly more damage to San Mateo County's economy that has already been devastated by the current, brutal recession/depression than any possible benefit that might be gained by additional tax revenues.
Now, more than ever, we must lower taxes, cut government to the bone and provide economic incentives for private sector businesses to relocate to San Mateo County. This type of punishing taxation being imposed by anti taxpayer politicians, like the ones sitting on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, is a recipe for an even worse economic disaster than the one they have already created for the County of San Mateo and San Mateo County taxpayers.
As evidenced by the catastrophic amount of economic damage that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and their cronies (i.e. Lee Buffington) have inflicted on the County of San Mateo and its government; the present gang that occupies seats on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, their immediate predecessors and the people who pull their puppet strings have been and are more destructive than a termite colony devouring a wood-frame house. They will not stop their tax rape and pillaging of San Mateo County's taxpayers until the appropriate legal remedies are used to stop them.
Increasing a sales tax often results in lower overall sales tax revenues. The increased sales tax being proposed by the cast of clowns on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors might actually lower overall sales tax revenues for the County of San Mateo. Of course, nobody would expect the political hacks on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to understand something as complicated as a discussion about how increasing sales taxes affects the supply - demand curve. When it comes to anything beyond the simple addition required to add up their campaign contributions from the unions who sponsor their Board seats, this is definitely the keep it simple stupid gang.
In these horribly tragic times, we are fighting for nothing less than the survival of our cities, counties, states and country. As citizens and taxpayers we must begin to make the sacrifices necessary to remove the current rotting crop of often corrupt, dangerously damaging elected officials from local, State and Federal political office. They must be replaced with good, decent people who will not allow themselves to be purchased and controlled by the narrow special interest groups who have been and are not only destroying San Mateo County but also California and the United States.
Taxpayers can no longer afford to pay all of these taxes to support wasteful, inefficient, overpriced, unioned up government operations that are leading us all down the road to bankruptcy. In San Mateo County, we have reached a point where the only option remaining is to remove anti taxpayer politicians from office . Otherwise, we will watch our schools as well as our local and county governments perish. The current tax and squander agenda of San Mateo County's local and county politicians is draining the life out of taxpayers and the institutions who serve them. If this is not stopped it will destroy us.
At the local, county, state and Federal level, we must start making the sacrifices necessary to remove anti taxpayer politicians from office. Those politicians who increase taxes and/or refuse to balance government budgets by making the cuts necessary to do so must go. These reckless, irresponsible, dangerous professional politicians and the mercenaries they pay with your taxpayer dollars, to promote their destructive anti taxpayer agenda, will never stop using our tax dollars against us in never ending efforts to raise our taxes to support their destructive agendas. They must be removed from office before they destroy not only San Mateo County but the State of California and the United States.
The union shills on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors apppear to be too afraid of the union bosses who control them, so they won't make the deep cuts to the job, salary, benefit and retirement plans of the unionistas working for the County government that are necessary to balance the County Budget. These unionized County workers suck down about 60% - 80% of the money spent by the County of San Mateo.
The very same San Mateo County Board of Supervisors that has blocked district elections in San Mateo County, because none of them could probably win a local election in the districts they so poorly represent, think it is easier to tax rape San Mateo County residents with a sales tax to support the the outrageous salaries and benefits of the unions who sponsor their embarrassing, pathetic political careers.
This destructive sales tax measure is inextricably bound to the Board of Supervisors refusal to support District elections. As long as there are no District elections for the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, and Board Members have to run expensive countywide campaigns, the Board will continue to be controlled by the deep pocket special interest groups who have been and are destroying San Mateo County and creating the budget problems. If these big money special interest groups did not control the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, there would be no need for more taxes because the cuts that need to be made to balance the County Budget, and create a surplus, would be made. Money becomes a much less significant factor in a smaller district election. The current San Mateo County Board of Supervisors ,and the special interst groups who control them, know this and don't want district elections that will dilute tor eliminate their power.
The proposed tax rape of San Mateo County taxpayers by the San Mateo County Board Supervisors is also being supported by yet another pay to play telephone poll performed by the ubiquitous Godbe Research whose expensive telephone polls almost always seem to justify and support new taxes. How many tens of thousands of dollars did San Mateo County taxpayers have to pay Godbe to come up with this poll?
We now have a $10 motor vehicle San Mateo County Vehicle Registration tax being placed on the November 2010 ballot, the San Mateo Union High School District will probably be putting a property tax measure on the November ballot, and now the San Mateo County Supervisors want to put a sales tax measure on the November 2010 election ballot that will increase sales taxes in San Mateo County well above the 10% mark.
The time for being patient with liberal tax and squander politicians, who cater to the narrow special interest groups whose intimidation tactics and highly suspect practices have created the economic nightmare we are now living through is coming to an end.
Budgets need to be balanced by cutting the size of government and not increasing taxes.
In San Mateo County, we are quickly coming to the point where it will be necessary for taxpayers to launch rolling recalls against all local politicians who vote to increase taxes. Any elected politician who votes to put a tax measure on the ballot or who votes to increase fees gets an automatic recall launched against them.
The practice of elected politicians wasting tens or hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars hiring political mercenaries to promote their reckless tax and squander agenda must also be stopped by launching lawsuits against any government entity using tax dollars to pay off political mercenaries to promote their political agenda.
If you had the opportunity to save your city or county from being destroyed by a hostile force would you make the sacrifices necessary to do so or would you ignore the situation while you watched the destruction? The time has come for you to make that choice...................................................
