Gov and Skelton agree: raise taxes

LAT columnist George Skelton writes this morning that he has met with Governor Schwarzenegger and they have agreed on a one-cent sales tax increase for three years to solve California's budget crisis. Skelton also says he has met with a Democrat legislator who claims that budget negotiations will still be going on at Thanksgiving.

That's good if it means legislators will not be getting paid. A temporary tax increase is never temporary, as someone famous once said. Until someone can show that Californians are undertaxed, a tax increase should not be approved.