TAXES can work wonders!

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2. Not investing in your people, and thus not paying the bills, looks prosperous for a while...

with a few tax increases. Not the first time.

But years later the bill for the hungry kids, the people who were not educated, those who did not get medical care will be paid by our children, and theirs.

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"When Brown took office in 2011, the state faced a $26.6 billion budget gap. To close it, the state slashed spending for schools, the correctional system, health and human services and higher education."
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Much like in the larger country, where we let 7 million families be foreclosed on without aid, 10 million people fall into poverty, fail to invest in our infrastructure and refuse to invest in our people, and then proclaim what an economic recovery we have. It's very capitalist to pretend to do better on the backs of those who have less. Democrats, at least in certain decades, have been better than that.

Not trying to rain on your parade, but taking money from those who have more isn't the whole answer. You have to invest it in the people that need it before you can pat one's self on the back. Until all those cuts and more are restored this isn't the whole story.