Californians: flush twice to ensure all Democrats are washed clean from the public trough

For your consideration, a delightful compendium of Democrat leadership in action.

CA Democrats Unveil New Budget Using Standard One-Page Playbook: Tax Hikes

An outline of the Democrats' plan had been circulating for several days before its official release on Tuesday afternoon and as expected it included tax proposals worth about $4.5 billion. The revenue would come from an oil severance tax, delaying corporate tax breaks and income tax increases paired with a reduced sales tax.

This approach, which even a fifth-grader would rightly judge as destructive, will drive additional businesses and residents out of the state as surely as Michael Moore eats dinner. On the bright side, however, L.A. is headed into the crapper even faster than the state itself.

L.A. pensions may consume a third of city’s general fund by 2015.

The cost of retirement benefits for Los Angeles city employees will grow by $800 million over the next five years, dramatically eroding the amount of money available for public services to taxpayers, according to a report issued Tuesday.

In a bleak assessment delivered to members of the City Council, City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said pensions and health benefits for current and future retirees would jump from $1.4 billion next year to at least $2.2 billion in 2015.

In all seriousness, however, there is a little bit of good news for taxpayers: it appears they'll get to find out what their public sector betters are making.

It's true: the peons aren't allowed to know the salaries of most public workers in Cali.

Heh! It caused a mini-firestorm when one city released its public payroll data. One can only imagine what will happen if the whole state complies with the State Controller. When do the lawsuits with various reasons for why they can't do it begin? 5, ...4, ...3 - I have a feeling, it won't be too long. If the people pay the salaries, why shouldn't they have a right to know what they are? Sounds reasonable to me.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's controller is ordering all cities and counties to start reporting the salaries of elected officials and public employees... Controller John Chiang said Tuesday he will post the information on his website beginning in November.

The directive comes after revelations that the Southern California city of Bell paid three of its top administrators a total of $1.6 million a year. Part-time City Council members were paid nearly $100,000 a year.

Currently, local governments must report only general figures about revenue and expenditures to the state controller's office.

Crazy talk. Citizens need to shut up, pay more taxes, and stop asking questions. The rulers rule, and the peons ... uhm, get peed on.