JERRY BROWN will do what he’s always done. He’ll squeeze services for middle and lower income people, claim he’s going for increased taxes to make up the budget deficit but set his phony taxes up in a way that they’re certain to be rejected by the people who vote these days, those people being the comfortable classes who will say, “Good ol’ Jer Agonistes. See how it pains him to squeeze those people like that.” But Brown is doing what Democrats always do anymore and what he’s always done — pound the people who can’t fight back, the unrepresented people while he claims these are his only options. He joins the Republicans in claiming that gosh darn there just isn’t any money to pay for vital help to the people who need it. In fact, there’s lots of money, but don’t look for Democrats, who move around in the same charter jets — Nancy Pelosi commuted in a 747! — and big black limos that the Republicans move around in; don’t look for any of these people to put a serious tax bite on the big incomes. Both parties are the enemy. It’s past time to oil up the pitch forks.
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