Crist … All you need to know.

The president of the Florida Senate is Jeff Atwater
contact is Jeff@jeffatwater.com or mailto:atwater.jeff.web@flsenate.gov
and the senate whip is Charlie Dean
mailto:dean.charles.web@flsenate.gov
If they dont hear from the Florida electorate they will think this is just okay.
I have sent these two my nastygram and will send the rest one also

Crist will be nowhere in 2012. He will pay a price.

What did the States do with the tobacco settlement that was sposed to go to health care??
It’s never enough is it???

but they did reduce the budget from 2006 levels by $8 billion, and at some point you need to be realistic in terms of the cuts. If you just cut and cut spending in the midst of a recession, you are going to be labeled as mean-spirited, among other insults, which the press will use to the Dems advantage. I look at it this way-Florida, like Texas and others, still does not have an income tax. Just ask people in CA and NY about their double digit state and local income taxes.

I live in MA and I’d take a few fee increases if we could get rid of the state income tax. We had a ballot initiative in November to repeal the state income tax, but it went down in flames because the moonbats in this state love being taxed and were duped by the ads from the repeal opponents.

My point is that if FL doesn’t increase fees on tobacco products, then maybe some so-called progressive Dem will start the bandwagon rolling for a state income tax.

…..that I am dropping out of the Republican party the first opportunity I get over the next day or so.

Will be registered as an Independent.

I’ve had enough of this garbage.

Cheers from South Flori-duh !

I did vote for Crist because I am a Republican, and because the competition was a joke. But I have learned a lot about this man since he has been in power.

Trust me when I tell you that his personal life is a well known fact in Florida — despite his recent marriage. I find him to be nothing more than a RINO that will kiss butt for a vote. But what really did it for me was his disgusting groveling of OPrompter as he salivated over swindle-us dollars. He is a political whore and one of several reasons the republicans did not carry the state of Florida for McCain.

I assure you he will NOT get my vote for anything in the future.

Frankly, I like some of these tax increases . . . and I typically favor low taxes.

1. User fees on roads and court services and tuition are generally wise. People should pay for what they get. Florida tuition is way too low (either the lowest or near the lowest in the country). I see no reason to subsidize other people’s use of roads and other government services.

2. So what if they are regressive. Everyone should pay taxes. I do not want to subsidize others.

3. We lowered property taxes in recent years, which is good. Hence, some of this is a shift from an unwise tax to wiser taxes. Viewed in that sense, we should not condemn it as a tax increase.

4. A broader based sales tax on services is also a good idea: it beats a higher general sales tax or an income tax. Remember, sales taxes hit everyone, which strikes me as fair. They are far better than a progressive income tax or high property taxes.

The class size amendment back in 2004 is biting us in the butt. It removes a lot of options for balancing the education budget, and that is the significant problem right now. So the school districts instead have to look at curtailing AP classes and sports in order to keep all of those extra teachers on the payroll.

They started off looking at education cuts, but that caused a huge outcry from the “save our schools” PTA moms that they had to back down.

Personally, I’d like them to make significant cuts in the parks, corrections, and welfare programs, but so many of those programs are tied to federal funding (see how brilliant Obama is in eliminating federalism?) that it is hard to make those tough choices. And with tourism down, a significant portion of our tax base is gone.

So yeah, our assembly is taking the cowards way out, and raising taxes on people who can’t really object. Personally, if they really can’t find any place else to cut, I would prefer a half cent increase in the sales tax. At least then everyone gets to feel the pain equally.