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RUSH: ‘California — the Lindsay Lohan of States,\u2019 this by Allysia Finley. She is ‘a lapsed Californian\u2019 and an assistant editor of OpinionJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal. ‘Listen up, California. The other 48 states — your cousin New York excluded — are sick of your bratty arrogance. You\u2019re the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once showed some talent but is now too wasted to do anything with it. After enjoying ephemeral highs and spending binges, you suffer crashes that culminate in brief, unsuccessful stints in rehab. This cycle repeats itself every five to 10 years, as the rest of the country looks on with a mixture of horror and amusement. We\u2019d feel sorry for you if you didn\u2019t constantly flip us the bird. <\/p>\n

‘Instead, we\u2019re making bets on how long it will be before your next meltdown. Oh, wait — you\u2019re already melting down. You\u2019ve racked up nearly $70 billion in general obligation debt, and that doesn\u2019t include your $500 billion unfunded pension liability. Your own analysts predict you\u2019ll face a hole of at least $80 billion over the next four years. Your government\u2019s run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums. When they\u2019re not taxing or spending, they\u2019re creating regulations and commissions like the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and the California Blueberry Commission. Many businesses would leave if it weren\u2019t for your sunny climate. <\/p>\n

‘Which may explain why you\u2019re so obsessed with climate change. If your climate changes, no one, including your Hollywood friends, would tolerate you anymore. So you\u2019ve created a law to tax carbon emissions — no matter that it will kill jobs. It\u2019s not as if you don\u2019t recognize that you\u2019ve got problems. Roughly three-quarters of you say you\u2019re headed in the wrong direction, according to a recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. You\u2019re even more depressed than Illinois and New York, and you\u2019ve got sunshine 10 months of the year! You appropriately give your government low marks — 28% approval for outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,\u2019 who, by the way, did you see him on The Tonight Show the other night?<\/p>\n

He says nobody\u2019s going to be bothered if you smoke a joint. Nobody\u2019s gonna care if you smoke a joint in California. Probably true, but try lighting up a cigarette and see what happens to you. At any rate, ‘28% approval for outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 16% for the legislature — yet you continue to re-elect the politicians who got you into this mess. Not a single incumbent state legislator lost re-election this year, including one Democrat who died a month ago (no joke). What\u2019s scarier is that you\u2019ve just given almost all of the keys to statewide offices to Democrats. Jerry Brown will be your new (old) governor. This is the man who acted as a gateway drug to your spending addiction three decades ago when he gave public-sector employees collective bargaining rights. <\/p>\n

‘Helping enforce your wacky laws will be Lt. Gov-elect Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who flouted state law by allowing same-sex marriage. On the plus side, he has nice hair and loves you just the way you are. This is what he had to say after winning his race: ‘We\u2019re nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. You tend to manifest what you focus on. If you look around for what\u2019s wrong, you\u2019ll find it. But as all we know up here in San Francisco, when you focus on what\u2019s right, you see it all around you. … There is absolutely nothing wrong with California that can\u2019t be fixed by what\u2019s right with California. … If you\u2019re from another state, you\u2019d love to have the problems of California.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You\u2019ve also just re-elected Barbara Boxer (that\u2019s Senator Barbara Boxer) to a fourth term. She boasted on election night that it\u2019s her ‘eleventh straight election victory, and what a sweet one it is … [since] everything was thrown at us, including the kitchen sink, and the stove and the oven and everything, millions of dollars of negative ads from known and unknown opponents, millions and millions of dollars.” So, Miss Finley says, ‘We\u2019ve tried to help you, California. Some spent millions on campaigns to entice you to change your reckless behavior. And you told them to kick rocks. So here\u2019s our final warning: When you inevitably crash and burn, don\u2019t count on us to bail you out,\u2019 although they are and they will count on us to bail them out. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I suggest an across-the-board massive state tax increase in California. Make \u2019em pay for it. You know, this is one of these days where my patience is wearing thin. I go in and out of this feeling about this notion that you don\u2019t have to pay for what you want or have or need, and California epitomizes this. Five hundred billion dollars of unfunded pension liabilities? Paying people not to work? Health care after they retire? (interruption) I know, Snerdley, me calling for tax increases is simply unbelievable, but, for crying out loud, these are the people calling for tax increases on the rest of us to pay for them. They should pay for it. Make them pay for it. They created their mess. They voted for the people who created this mess. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ray in Livermore, California, great to have you on the EIB Network. Welcome, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s great to have you, your (garbled) assets. You\u2019re busy pointing out how everything Obama is saying is in complete opposition to what he\u2019s doing — or better yet, ‘Ye shall know them by their fruits.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I want to point to the fact that he keeps saying that he wants to help small businesses, and I am a small business. I\u2019ve been at this for 20 years, Rush, and I think it\u2019s nothing but a damn lie, because what he\u2019s doing — everything he\u2019s doing — is hurting small business, and here\u2019s my reasoning. Small business, we\u2019re not mandated to give benefits or benefit packages or government controls. Because our size is so small, we come underneath that. We\u2019re not beholden to government contracts typically because we\u2019re too small to handle some of these contracts and we\u2019re not beholden to unions and union contracts. Therefore, that puts a target on our back because we cannot be controlled — or better said, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, ‘We are rugged individuals.\u2019 We don\u2019t want government help, and we don\u2019t want government intrusion in our lives or our businesses.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you got it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you got it, sir. That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, you got it. They\u2019re running your business as it is, and they\u2019re coming up with policies here. They\u2019re upset with you because you\u2019re not borrowing any money. Would you explain to people why that is totally irrelevant to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because in business you don\u2019t — in a small business especially you don\u2019t — borrow money to make parole. You don\u2019t borrow money to grow your business when you don\u2019t have any customers going through the door.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. When you got no demand for your business, why the hell are you gonna borrow money for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And we don\u2019t exist to offer benefit packages and paid days off to people as this administration believes that businesses exist to employ people. American people, we exist to provide you with the best products and services at competitive prices, and government has nothing to do with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not just Obama that believes you exist to provide people health care. It\u2019s half the people that work for you. It\u2019s a sad reality. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s half, but a lot of people think the purpose of a corporation is to keep a town together, the purpose of a corporation is to provide health care benefits, the purpose of a corporation is to have sick days, the purpose of a corporation is to have paid vacations. Talk to some of these human resource people who do the interviewing and ask them the first question the employee asks them. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: John in Whitmore, California. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings. Hey, I listen to you all the time. I\u2019ve been listening… You know, I\u2019m 70 years old, and I live — like you said — in Whitmore, and you mentioned about the way for California to solve its problems is to raise taxes. Now, they\u2019re gonna run with that. We\u2019re conservative in Northern California.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d like for you to separate the two. <\/p>\n

RUSH\u2019 (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: From Sacramento north, it\u2019s very, pretty much conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, now, now. I\u2019ve been to Humboldt County. You can\u2019t tell me…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019ve got one town, you\u2019re talking Humboldt, yeah, but the majority of Northern California is conservative. You know, we vote conservative, and what they\u2019re gonna do is they\u2019ll say, ‘Well, Rush said raise your taxes so they\u2019ll raise taxes.\u2019 We\u2019re taxed out of this place already, you know. You can\u2019t sell homes here. Their value\u2019s gone down so fast we can\u2019t move out of California because we can\u2019t sell our homes, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where would you go, if you could?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I like parts of Texas, parts of Arizona. You know, I like all kinds of other places. We\u2019re really taxed heavy. I\u2019m a businessman. I\u2019m a retired businessman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I would never try to start a business in California. I\u2019m surprised Meg Whitman doesn\u2019t pull all of her stuff outta here, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think you really have anything to worry about. California will always do the opposite of what I say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t know about that. You\u2019re pretty right. You know, the only thing is, they will run with you. They listen to you, you know, and they\u2019ll run with anything you say like the answer is to raise taxes, and all they\u2019ll do is hurt the 40% of us that pay taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re not alone. I\u2019m hearing from people like you in my e-mail in large numbers today who are really afraid that I\u2019m going to be listened to or that California authorities will say, ‘Even Limbaugh realizes now we have no choice but than to raise taxes,\u2019 and I admit I\u2019m being a little selfish \u2019cause we\u2019re all paying for California now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I agree with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And New York\u2019s next and then Illinois.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: These people in California keep voting for what they get.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I don\u2019t think you can say they do, but I\u2019m sorry that 40 or 45% vote the other way. And when you throw us all into one category, you\u2019re talking like we\u2019re all a bunch of dumb idiots.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m sorry. I know it sounds that way, but when not one incumbent in that state loses…<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the state assembly, not one lost.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you know why?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then you go back 30 years for Moonbeam!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I agree with that, too. You know, actually 40 years on when he was in last time I can\u2019t remember, I actually voted for him back then.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Which was kind of stay tuned, but, you know, we live and learn.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Too late. Anyway… I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m just flippant. I hear what you\u2019re saying. I\u2019ll think about revising my idea. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I think there are some people misunderstanding me on this proposal that I have made to raise taxes in California. I mean on everybody. Everybody! Not just ‘the rich,\u2019 everybody. The people that aren\u2019t paying taxes now, make \u2019em pay taxes. If you want to end this, you make this cost people something. I know it goes against the grain of everybody, but California is beyond help. Even when Reagan was out there, when he was governor for eight years, California\u2019s budget grew 122%. The bureaucracy grew by 22% when Reagan was governor. He was trying to fight it! So my idea… Look, I know it isn\u2019t going to happen. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Cheyenne, Wyoming, Travis, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great to be on your show, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t even know where to start. First of all, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you, but I\u2019m highly disappointed in you today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no. No, no, no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Turned on the radio, got off from one of my calls, and you\u2019re for raising taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No way. You\u2019ve got to unleash this economy before you can see the kind of revenues that\u2019ll be able to pay down our deficit —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and if you raise taxes you\u2019ll never unleash the economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. I am not suggesting we raise taxes to fix deficits. I\u2019m not suggesting we raise taxes for any reason other than to make Californians pay for this profligacy that they\u2019re voting for.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So raise taxes on Californians?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. <\/p>\n

CALLER: — getting the extra benefits and they\u2019re the ones that run their deficit into such a big hole.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if we don\u2019t raise taxes on Californians guess who\u2019s taxes are gonna be raised?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Everybody\u2019s.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, because they\u2019re gonna get bailed out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, okay, well, I\u2019m glad I got that clear.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it was not just for the rich, it was for the poor and everybody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah, yeah. Gotta be across the board. I\u2019m a flat tax guy, gotta be across the board.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Make these people realize what this irresponsibility is costing them and everybody else. My whole point is, there are way too many people going through life who don\u2019t want to pay for what they have, pay for what they want, pay for what they get. And it\u2019s my tipping point today. If you live in California and you\u2019re gonna elect people that are gonna run your state that way, then you pay for it, not us who don\u2019t live there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Agreed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I misunderstood.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not your fault. You caught the tail end of it, and I can understand the shock and awe when you hear El Rushbo talk about raising taxes, I can understand you pulling off the road to call me.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Yeah. Absolutely. If I\u2019ve got the time, I\u2019d like to talk about Social Security as well.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Sure, go right ahead.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I\u2019m 25 years old. I\u2019ve been told my whole life, I mean literally since I was ten years old that I\u2019d never have Social Security. ‘You better take care of your retirement, you\u2019re not gonna be able to count on Social Security.\u2019 My whole generation has heard this their entire lives. I think that being told that for as long as we have completely prepared us to not get Social Security. There are people much older than me that have paid into it, you know, 15, 20, 30 years. I think that those people, I think my elders, the older generation deserves to get the Social Security they paid into for much longer time. And I would even be willing to pay the rest of my life into a Social Security system that I saw no benefit from —<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Let me ask you something.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: — as long as I got one concession. If I got one concession, that is, my retirement does not get taxed a dime, I will pay for everybody older than me to have their Social Security.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: You can\u2019t make that deal because they\u2019ll renege on it. You had it right the first time. You had it right the first time. When you said go through your life as though it isn\u2019t going to be there, meaning take care of it yourself.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Yes.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Now, every time I say this, I have people sending me vicious e-mails. ‘Well, easy for you to say,\u2019 is the reaction. Now, I, in my life have been fired a bunch of times, which those of you who have listened regularly know, and I have been broke a couple of times, and I\u2019ve had periods of time where my rent, house payment, and my MasterCard bill came in the same two-week period of the month and I couldn\u2019t either pay the rent and eat at the same time, and MasterCard wouldn\u2019t change my due date to the second half of the month. And I hated it. And I vowed that when that happened to me, I was never, ever gonna be in a situation like that again where I was gonna have to depend on somebody else, particularly for my needs. Wants, that\u2019s a whole different thing. Well, I don\u2019t want to depend on other people for my wants, either, but needs, I mean, when I am depending on others for necessities, that to me is failure. I\u2019m not gonna do it. I don\u2019t want to be dependent. I don\u2019t want to be that obligated. So at that point it became a goal of mine that no matter what I wanted, I had to be able to pay for it to get it.<\/line> <\/line> It\u2019s interesting, my parents and grandparents who went through the Great Depression, they tried to drill this into me, and I was, you know, a typical kid, in one ear and out the other. ‘Okay, Dad, fine, yeah, sure, sure, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u2019 But they came from the attitude of thrift. They had gone through the Depression, everybody was in debt, nobody could get a job, and it was an irresponsible thing to go into debt, other than for your house. That was one thing that you couldn\u2019t just write a check for. When those set of circumstances happened to me is when I finally said, ‘You know, I\u2019m gonna not live beyond my means, and I\u2019m certainly not gonna have expectations that others are gonna support me.\u2019 So I have done that. And every time I bring this up, ‘Easy for you to say.\u2019 Well, it wasn\u2019t easy to do. It was not easy to do. It might be easy for me to say, but it has not been easy to do, and it has required a lot of commitment. So I do have a bit of a tipping point when I see a bunch of spoiled-rotten people expecting to live off of everybody else simply because they were born, simply because they\u2019re alive. <\/line> <\/line> That\u2019s why communism and socialism offend me. The idea that it\u2019s up to everybody else to take care of everybody else, nobody\u2019s gonna get anywhere doing that, and that has never worked for overall prosperity, economic freedom, more opportunity anywhere. It just doesn\u2019t work and it creates resentment, it promotes failure, sameness, lack of inspiration. It destroys the human spirit. Liberalism, socialism, communism, Marxism, it destroys the greatest things about humanity, and that\u2019s ambition, dreaming, you know, creativity, entrepreneurism, charity, you name it, it destroys all of that. And I get up and I watch these longhaired, maggot-infested ingrate students complaining about how much education costs. Fine. If you can\u2019t afford it, don\u2019t go to school or find someplace that you can afford. That\u2019s what all the rest of us that have had to accept the responsibilities of life have had to do. Why should they be exempt just because they\u2019ve had a bunch of irresponsible leaders who lied to \u2019em? It\u2019s time to face the piper. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to this California tax. I\u2019m sure a lot of people misunderstood it. It\u2019s just about paying your way. If you want a state that\u2019s gonna pay people $40 million bucks a day not to work, fine! Raise the taxes and you pay it. Forty million dollars a day in unemployment benefits in California. Fine. Tax the poor, tax the unemployed, tax everybody, not just the working. Show us how this is done. It\u2019s like with anything else: If you want less of it, you tax it. So if you want fewer stupid Californians, you raise taxes on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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