| It is never enough. Did you realize
that, prior to 1986, the state only owed $4 billion
in bonds? California and its taxpayers built our
entire freeway system, the entire university system,
our water system, and all of our grade and high
schools without
borrowing a dime.
Today, we, our children, and our grandchildren
owe over $50 billion, a one thousand two hundred and
fifty percent increase in just 20 years. And it is
still not enough.
In 1988, the politicians told us our libraries
were in trouble, and needed more money. We were told
that even though the state had a $20 billion budget,
we were in trouble. We were told that the state
could not afford to spend anything out of its budget
on libraries, and we had to borrow the money. So we
took out our credit card and borrowed $75 million.
But it wasn’t enough.
In 2000, we were told our libraries were in
trouble again, and, even though the state budget was
$64 billion, we could not afford to spend a dime of
that money on libraries, and we had to borrow
another $350 million for libraries. We were told by
the politicians we would save our libraries if we
just borrowed this money one more time. So we took
out our credit card again, and borrowed the money.
Six years later, we are again being told that we
need to borrow money for libraries, only this time
they need $600 million.
Since 1988, the price tag for our libraries has
risen 600 percent in borrowed money.
Since 1988, the state budget has increased 500
percent, from $20 billion to $100 billion. The state
has fi ve times the money it had in 1988, and it
can’t find $600 million for libraries? In our
present budget, $600 million is 6/10ths of one
percent of the budget. We spent $9 billion on
illegal alien welfare last year, yet the state can’t
find one dime in money for libraries, and has to
borrow money again? Something is wrong.
We are going to be told how important libraries
are, and how we have to borrow the money again.
These politicians want our children and our
grandchildren to keep paying more and more, so they
can keep giving more and more of their money to
illegal aliens and self-indulgent bureaucrats.
The only way we can stop this is to say no. Maybe
if we say no, they will quit asking us to pull out
the credit card. Maybe they will quit spending money
on stuff we don’t want, and start spending it on
stuff we do want, like libraries. Instead of letting
them borrow the money, we need to tell them to take
the money away from the illegals, and give it to us
in libraries. Please say no to this bond. It is not
a no to libraries; it is a no to self-indulgent
politicians who have spent our tax dollars unwisely.
Tell them enough is enough.
ASSEMBLYMAN RAY HAYNES, Member
California State Assembly
LEW UHLER, President
National Tax Limitation Committee
JON COUPAL, President
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association |
