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Written in article <13shm8INN14v@agate.berkeley.edu>
    by faustus@ygdrasil.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher):

: If you consider all the things we expect the state
: government to do for us, I think it's fair to say that we aren't
: paying enough.

This means, of course, that we should lower our expectations of govt.

It's not our baby-sitter, after all.

: As soon as this election is over, I predict that we
: are going to see some big (and necessary) tax increases, no matter who
: gets elected.

I fear you are probably correct.  I'd prefer to see some big (and
necessary) cuts in spending, but that would be political suicide.

I can only hope that the tax increases prove to be even worse.

There have been times where increased taxes WERE political suicide.
Obviously that era hasn't been in CA for some time.

: You can't have it both ways -- "we need to have certain
: services" and "we don't want to pay for them".

100% correct.  The problem is, which end do we want to work on?

Do we want more services that most of us probably won't use, with more
taxes that most of us probably WILL pay?

Or do we want fewer services that most of us probably won't miss, with
less taxes that most of us WILL find a better way to invest the $$?

I vote for less taxes.

: 	Wayne

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