Gleeful Stargis wrote on alt.california:

> On 18 Jan 2004 21:57:22 GMT, Yez <yezelel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>R
>>
>>Anyone with any compassion would close a loophole or raise a
>>luxury tax rather than cutting funding to students and the poorest
>>in our society.
>>
>>'rena
> 
> Raise taxes, got to be the answer, just got to be. Thats how
> the left thinks it can solve everything. 

I hardly speak for any group i.e. "the left", and I certainly don't 
think "everything" can be solved that way.

> Your breaking my heart. Sniff. 

You'd have to have one first.

> Why dont you go out and volunteer and contribute instead
> of expecting the taxpayers to accept the burden. You have
> control over your own money, your own time, your own property.
> Why not sell some of it and contribute to the poor if it is
> upsetting you so much what the evil Governor is doing. Belly
> aching isnt going to change a thing. Two hours of volunteer work
> will. 

I *DO* contribute time, money and materials and have mentored grade 
school kids in music and art. I am calling for a raise in a luxury 
tax like beer or chocolate so the quality of life in our beautiful 
state can stay as high as it is. You might easily avert your eyes and 
step over the homeless or ill, I just am not made that way.

> again.........
> California got in trouble because the Democrats spent money like
> drunken sailors expecting the dot.com boom to continue until
> doomsday. It didnt. 

Again... the dot.com bubble, the screwing by Enron/Duke, 9/11 and 
Bush's "leadership" all factor into our current problem and we are 
not alone, the whole country is a mess.

'rena

-- 
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises 
in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral 
justification for selfishness." -John Kenneth Galbraith