Prop. 30 is a 'bully' tax
By The Bakersfield Californian
I am perplexed and confused. How did the Bully Tax (Proposition 30) pass? This tax should be raising the ire and outrage of every liberal righter of wrongs out there. But the ACLU is also oddly quiet about a minority group being singled out for extortion.
This tax is no different than the schoolyard bully finding the kid that works hard, does his chores and earns his allowance, and threatening to beat him if he doesn't hand over his money. Somehow this injustice is right in the mind of liberals/socialists that are constantly up in arms over bullying and profiling of minorities.
If being 3 percent of a population doesn't make one a minority, nothing does. I am not one of the targeted group and I find this tax appalling in its blatant class warfare and targeting of a minority segment of people in California. Liberals should be hanging their heads in shame that they clamored to implement this travesty on their fellow citizens.
Greg Lee
Bakersfield
Most CommentedMost Popular
A forceful Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood announced at a tense press conference Thursday that David Sal Silva, whose death earlier this month raised questions about use of force by deputies, died as a result of hypertensive heart disease and was not only intoxicated but had methamphetamine...
The death of a man in custody following a prolonged struggle with Kern County Sheriff's deputies and CHP officers and the subsequent fracas over confiscated witness cellphones have gained international attention and raised concerns here that the incidents could tarnish the county's emerging...
The Kern County Sheriff's Office is out of control. That's one conclusion many people will draw based on the events of the past two weeks and in the context of recent years.
Sheriff’s investigators served a search warrant on Kern Medical Center and the Mary K. Shell Mental Health Center seeking medical records to find possible reasons for David Sal Silva’s behavior prior to and during his encounter with law enforcement, The Californian learned Friday.
Blood stains are still visible on the sidewalk at the corner of Flower Street and Palm Drive, where a Bakersfield man struggled with as many as nine officers and later died this week.
Classes were canceled at Bakersfield High School Monday after three small bottle bomb explosions struck campus, authorities said.
David Sal Silva’s screams seem like they will never stop.
A forceful Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood announced at a tense press conference Thursday that David Sal Silva, whose death earlier this month raised questions about use of force by deputies, died as a result of hypertensive heart disease and was not only intoxicated but had methamphetamine and other drugs in his system at the time of his death.