Prop 30 Has Governor Brown Begging for Taxes

Governor Jerry Brown is racing around the state of California to promote his tax increase California Proposition 30, a Sales and Income Tax Initiative. Brown visited five cities in the last day to encourage the people to vote for his tax increase, which applies retroactively to its victims, taxing income earned or received from January 1^st, 2012.
Brown is placing his hope in this tax increase as a way to bring California out of the fiscal hole it has dug for itself. The L.A. Times reported, however, that Brown's initiative might be in big trouble: "Recent polls showed the proposal slipping below the 50% threshold, typically the death knell for tax initiatives." That is why Brown went from city to city on Monday, trotting along with rapper M.C. Hammer and his dog Sutter to help him convince voters to support Prop 30. Of course he also pestered his million-plus Twitter followers.
Supporters of the measure argue that it must pass to prevent $6 billion in education cuts for this school year. San Diego resident Bey-Ling Sha admits that this will happen, but she views Prop 30 as a sneaky ploy by California politicians to use education to raise taxes. "The state Legislature and the governor have already taken those funds from education and used them for other stuff. Why? Because they figured that voters would raise taxes on themselves to fill a funding hole for education, but not necessarily for something else." Education is simply being exploited by California politicians who are hungry for taxes.
Proposition 30 does nothing to limit waste and bureaucracy in education. Opponents of the initiative say, "The Governor, politicians and special interests behind Proposition 30 threaten voters. They say 'vote for our massive tax increase or we'll take it out on schools,' but at the same time, they refuse to reform the education or pension systems to save money." The Governor hides behind the ideas of a "millionaire tax" and "education funding" to promote a plan that will burden Californians with a 3.45% sales tax increase and also an income tax increase of 10.6% for those making $250,000 and 32.26% for those making $1,000,000.