Democrats: "We never met a tax we didn't like--as long as someone else pays it!"

For at least the last few decades California's legislature has been controlled by Democrats. Who love public-employee unions. So the wheels were always greased for the pols to keep raising taxes, to pay for frequent wage and pension increases for their union buddies, who in turn kicked back huge sums to ensure that their Dem buddies would continue to run things.

But at some point the non-union public raised a fuss, and the result was a constitutional amendment that said the legislature had to have a two-thirds majority vote to raise taxes.

However, if you think the Dem pols would obey that, you must be under 25 or so.

Silly person!

So the CA legislature has just voted to raise fees on car registration, and (here's the big one) to charge an annual fee of $150 on every home that's located outside a city.

That's a pretty huge fee, and it'll hit a lot of people. It passed without a single Republican vote.

So...all you folks who live outside city limits in CA, you're getting a pretty stiff tax hike--even if they don't call it that--courtesy of the Democrats. And that kind of "tax the rural folks" will continue, because Dem voters outnumber any other kind in that state.

Hey, you're lucky they didn't charge you a thousand bucks! Cuz' they sure could have, eh? So just shut up and pay up.