"We need to be raising tax revenues back from where we cut them before. We cut taxes for the richest. It's time to get those back. They had a free ride for a while, but that is the first tax we have to get back." -- Art Pulaski, head of the California Labor Federation, on why taxes should be raised for the 'rich'.

Free ride? I suppose the 'richest' have not been paying taxes for the past couple of years, while the poor people shouldered all of the load.