The Republicans: California's Yacht Party

Actually, they are funded by "evil" tax PAYERS........You remember them, don't you? They're the ones that pay for EVERYTHING.
By the way, most of the roads and bridges have been built by private companies.
Capitalism is the natural state of a society when people are working to take care of themselves. Don't hate people for their willingness to work - find out what they did to succeed and then pass that information along to someone who has yet to succeed. Positive influence.

To bodgaard:

What is the source of the payments to those private companies that build the roads and bridges of our "free"way system?

Dude, it's TAXES.  Taxes aren't evil or good. They're just a tool for paying for stuff (through the administration or direct efforts of the public sector).

"Wars" on tools (like taxes, terrorism, or drugs) are wars that, by their (correct) interpretation, CANNOT be won. Tools don't fight. The people who wield them do.

"Dude", where do those taxes come from?......YOU AND ME!! Taxes DON'T EXIST without the exchange of 'service' or a 'good' between you and I, at which point the government takes a percentage with the understanding that it will be used to support our societle structure.
By the way, I said "evil taxpayer" in jest because of what I 'thought' was my 'obvious' high regard for taxpayers.
Aged electrical grids, inadequate roads, we seem to have a shortage of 'tools' for our cash outlay.........

I'm in an accounting partnership with 5 other partners. When some of them propose what I consider bad policies for the partnership, I do my best to convince them of their error. But this doesn't give me the power to override their votes and have everything MY WAY.

Sometimes my partners' votes outnumber mine, and the partnership spends money on things I would rather do without. If I don't like it, I suppose I could leave, but I don't want to.

Similarly, if you don't like CA, you could LEAVE.

That's right. Tax the rich until they leave the state. That will certainly make the middle class person's life better. When a person buys a yacht, hundreds of people make a living building it, get taxed on their income, and spend it in their communities.

You can't make poor people rich by making rich people poor.

Can I get one of those hats?

If you hate taxes so much, why did you vote for an illegal war?

The Democrats said they were going to end the war in Iraq if they won a majority in congress in the '06 elections. What happened to all that rhetoric? I haven't heard a thing since they got they're snout back in the trough.