As a CPA (inactive), I've never understood how politicians campaign on "job creation," while supporting policies that undermine and destroy any hope of real economic growth. They should really know better.
High tax rates combined with incredible levels of spending and debt have sidelined thousands of California's job creators and entrepreneurs. Exhausted taxpayers can no longer afford the price.The fact is that we can't grow the size of state government while creating a healthy environment for job creation and growth. It just isn't possible. Sacramento has been recycling this strange strategy for decades, under Democrat and even Republican management. Without principled, conservative leadership in the General Assembly, California's negative course is set, with little chance for change.Today, the perfect storm is here + a national economic tsunami has only been intensified and prolonged by a tidal wave of state government spending and debt. Repeated alarms to cut taxes, demonstrate fiscal restraint and ease the crushing weight of regulations have largely been ignored. The economic sunshine that once attracted generations of opportunity seekers is now blocked by a dark cloud of mismanagement and incompetence that questions our state's ability to engineer one more spectacular comeback.When a scandal-ridden governor left Sacramento in 2003, California's budget deficit hovered at an astonishing $34 billion with an annual budget of $99 billion. In 2009, the state budget topped $144 billion with a deficit climbing to $42 billion. The policy of tax-spend-debt, a most sinister, anti-job cocktail, has already cost our state 1 million jobs, with hundreds of thousands more headed for the unemployment rolls.Double-digit unemployment, cities in fiscal crisis and a lack of confidence in the people we've elected is all the evidence required that there's never been a time where conservative change is needed more. If you give me the privilege of serving you in the State Assembly, I'm committed to policies that will stop the jobs bleed, and build a solid strategy for future growth.
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