IBD:
California's Senate debate was between someone who knows how to pull a wagon and someone who wants everyone to ride. The choice is creating wealth and jobs or redistributing wealth while destroying jobs.
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The debate wasn't so much conservative vs. liberal as between freedom and dependency, with incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer attacking former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as serving the interests of "billionaires, millionaires and companies that outsource jobs," as if California's 12.3% unemployment rate is the fault of someone who created jobs in the private sector.
Fiorina responded to Boxer, who at last report had not taken a vow of poverty, by noting that with 28 years in the Senate, she's part of the problem, not the solution: "If you look at Sen. Boxer's long track record of 28 years in Washington, D.C., you will see this: She is for more taxes, she is for more spending, she is for more regulation and she is also for big government and elite, extreme environmental groups."
Boxer is the quintessential liberal Democrat who paints everything with a class-warfare brush. She fails to realize that no one has ever gotten a job from a poor person and that wealth can be created, not merely taken from those who work very hard and given to those who work not at all.
If jobs have fled overseas, as they've fled California, it's because of Boxer-supported, oppressive government taxation that has given American business one of the highest tax burdens in the world. Boxer wants to add to that burden by letting the Bush tax cuts expire — in effect, a $3.8 trillion tax increase.
Boxer supports cap-and-trade legislation that will further cripple business and the American economy with onerous regulations that will drive up the cost of everything we make and consume. She opposes domestic energy development, whether off the California coast, in ANWR or in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Boxer is certain evidence that liberals are not very smart. The challenge may be whether California voters have wised up to what liberalism as done to them.
This suggest that the California legislature has not wised up.
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