Compare and Contrast: Brown vs Christie

Found this little gem at “The Patriot Post”

For the Record

“In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared it a ‘time to honestly assess our financial condition and make the tough choices.’ Plainly the choices weren’t tough enough: Mr. Brown has just announced that he faces a state budget deficit of $16 billion — nearly twice the $9.2 billion he predicted in January. In Sacramento [last] Monday, he coupled a new round of spending cuts with a call for some hefty new tax hikes. In his own inaugural address back in January 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also spoke of making tough choices for the people of his state.

For his first full budget, Mr. Christie faced a deficit of $10.7 billion — one-third of projected revenues. Not only did Mr. Christie close that deficit without raising taxes, he is now plumping for a 10% across-the-board tax cut. …

When the Obama administration’s Transportation Department called on California to cough up billions for a high-speed bullet train or lose federal dollars, Mr. Brown went along. In sharp contrast, when the feds delivered a similar ultimatum to Mr. Christie over a proposed commuter rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey, he nixed the project, saying his state just couldn’t afford it.

On the ‘millionaire’s’ tax, Mr. Brown says that California desperately needs to approve one if the state is to recover. The one on California’s November ballot kicks in at income of $250,000 and would raise the top rate to 13.3% from 10.3% on incomes above $1 million. Again in sharp contrast, when New Jersey Democrats attempted to embarrass Mr. Christie by sending a millionaire’s tax to his desk, he called their bluff and promptly vetoed it. …
Now, no one will confuse New Jersey with free-market Hong Kong. Still, because the challenges facing the Golden and Garden States are so similar, the different paths taken by their respective governors are all the more striking.” –columnist William McGurn

And he’s absolutely right. Christie isn’t my favorite Gov. Walker is. But Christie is doing a much better job than any Democrat GOV. And beats any far left moonbat like Jerry Brown by a mile. What is needed is NOT MORE TAXES, it’s more people paying lower taxes. You don’t get that by paying people NOT TO WORK. You don’t get that by giving money to Illegal aliens, you don’t get that by paying STATE WORKERS triple what the private sector makes and expecting businesses to foot the bill.

In CA people are voting with their feet. Businesses are leaving and with them go any chance of recovery for a state with no desire to fix the problem. This state is the 2nd term of Barack Hussein Obama. IF Romney really wants to win this election. All he has to do is point to CA as a compare and contrast. He’s going to lose CA anyway. At least make the state good for something.