Lessons for Liberals in California

RealClearPolitics has some thoughts:

"Progressives have a lot to think about. For one thing, there remains a deep skepticism about government spending, even for the best purposes. On the same day that the two propositions went down, voters in five California counties rejected sales tax increases, mostly to fund transportation projects. Attacks on tax and spend sound old and tired, but they still have force.

Higher taxes on the wealthy are a logical way to finance necessary programs because the best-off Americans have been posting much larger gains in income and wealth than the rest. But the well-to-do can still fend off such tax increases by creating rational doubts about what the money will be used for."

Maybe the "best purposes" and "necessary programs" need to be re-thought. Too often, progressives view government as THE answer to everything - even if the majority (government by the people, for the people) don't have a problem!