California's anti-gay GOP state legislators are once again shaming themselves, and this time opposing a tax cut to boot. Here's hoping Gov. Arnold does the right things and signs this bill letting domestic partners file joint state tax returns-giving committed gay couples the same tax break that hetero married couples get when they file jointly.
GOP Legislators Want Higher Taxes (for Gay Partners)
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11 Comments for “GOP Legislators Want Higher Taxes (for Gay Partners)”
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
Why are people so surprised at the GOP’s love for high taxes? They love high taxes, growth in government spending, and big government in general.
In fact, the well-engineered depreciation in the value of the US dollar, also known as “hidden inflation,” is simply a form of massive tax increase. The government runs huge deficits and pays them off by taking your money by making it less valuable — there’s no difference between making your money worth $6,000 less per year or government taxing you for $6,000 of those dollars.
As for Arnie, didn’t he say that this isn’t a legislative issue, but an issue for the courts? In opposition to his party’s other position which is “let the people decide!”
The overall GOP agenda is laughably transparent. I don’t know why any self-described real conservative takes them seriously.
posted by Bobby on
Bullshit, Northeast, republicans don’t usually love high taxes. This is an exception, not the rule. It was Bill Clinton who said he’d wish he was paying more taxes.
The exception doesn’t make the rule. Besides, republicans and free speech defenders are angry with the gay community because of things like this:
“California public schools could not demean gay, bisexual or transgender orientations under fiercely controversial legislation approved Monday by the Assembly… SB 1437 would ban teachers, textbooks, instructional materials or school activities from reflecting ”adversely” upon people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender….
Under Kuehl’s bill, public school teachers could not inform their students, for example, that homosexuality is immoral or wrong. Campaign for Children and Families, a nonprofit advocacy group, claims that SB 1437 would ban textbooks that define marriage as between a man and a woman; or sex education that displays traditional examples of male and female sexual development; or homecoming games that feature only a male king and a female queen as campus representatives.
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/15331146.htm
So people, let’s not play our community as the victim. We can be just as fascist as they are.
posted by Xeno on
“Our” community? LMAO Bobby, you’re not fooling anyone here with that …nor with your inane public school straw man attempt. And to answer your straw man, there’s no rational reason why public schools should state that homosexuality is “immoral or wrong”.
BTW Bobby, pop quiz, hotshot. can you name me the last Republican US president who actually made federal budget cuts? I’ll give you a clue: you’ll have to look far back into history. I’m sure NL knows the sad answer to that one.
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
Bullshit, Northeast, republicans don’t usually love high taxes.
Republicans love high taxes and big government — the present GOP era is more than demonstrative of that.
Republican legislators have increased spending and government employment at a rate never seen before in America — exceeding even the explosive growth of the Great Society and New Deal eras.
Those are the facts, jack.
posted by Bobby on
Republicans haven’t increased taxes, so don’t acuse them of that.
” there’s no rational reason why public schools should state that homosexuality is “immoral or wrong”.”
—It’s called free speech, ideological diversity, personal viewpoints, and if you’re teaching a class and a controversial subject appears, you’re supposed to give a fair and balanced answer, not what the Diversity Nazi Committee approves. Public schools are supposed to teach the views of the public, not just the education elite.
If you can’t stand free speech, go to Canada. This is America, and I will not support a law that stiffles the opposition.
Kuehl’s is doing just what minister of propaganda Goebbels did. Shame on them! And shame on anyone who ignores this outrage!
I’d rather be a persecuted homosexual than a fascist homosexual.
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
It’s called free speech, ideological diversity, personal viewpoints, and if you’re teaching a class and a controversial subject appears, you’re supposed to give a fair and balanced answer, not what the Diversity Nazi Committee approves.
So if a teacher in a public school was to teach kids that gay sex is superior in pleasure, that heterosexuality is immoral, that religion is a form of control instituted by pedophile priests, and offered dildo-painting courses as an elective, you’d rush to defend him from the Social Conservative Nazi Committee?
Something tells me the answer is “no.” Which underscores the Republicrat hypocrisy on this issue.
The reality is that the government has no proper role in “education,” especially ideological education or funding a few points of view, but not others, using the taxes paid by all.
posted by Michael S on
Gay agenda? Is that what they are calling Civil Rights now in California? The pigs have their garbage mixed up. Now they understand they have to battle gay marriage as not only a moral issue, but a financial (tax raising) one too. The real colors are showing, the beads are dropping, fellas.
posted by Thomas Horsville on
“It’s called free speech, ideological diversity, personal viewpoints, and if you’re teaching a class and a controversial subject appears, you’re supposed to give a fair and balanced answer, not what the Diversity Nazi Committee approves.”
Sorry, but during regular teaching time, a public school classroom or assembly is not a public forum. Nobody has the “right” to express personal viewpoints, and especially not the teacher, who is a school employee performing his professional duties. A statement of value such as “homosexuality is immoral or wrong” has no place in the curriculum of a public school.
“Public schools are supposed to teach the views of the public, not just the education elite.”
Public schools are supposed to teach facts, not “views”.
posted by Timothy Hulsey on
Vouchers are looking better all the time.
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
Vouchers are OK as an intermediate step to getting the government out of the education business, shutting down the public education bureaucracy, and permanently eliminating the taxes that pay for public “education.”
posted by etjb on
Getting back to the topic at hand, I was suprised that this was not already California law.
I had thought that California had passed a bill that was civil unions in everything but its name.
Yes, gay couples in a CU/DP should be able to file taxes jointly as can a opposite sex in a marriage.
W.W.A.D (What Will Arnold Do)? He has gone on record as opposing gay marriage, but support some type of seperate but equal civil unions. However, he also wants a second term….