WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown said Mitt Romney's tax plan was too vague to guarantee it would have much impact on U.S. employment.
Brown said that while President Obama proposed definite spending on U.S. infrastructure and education, the Republicans were placing their hopes on increasingly globalist corporations and investors.
"We are not going to just give somebody a tax break that they can invest in Macao or China or the Cayman Islands," Brown said on CNN's "State of the Union" "That's different than investing in more teachers and more policemen or high speed rail or the kind of things that takes government (involvement)."
Brown said California's long history of having high income taxes had produced a first-class education system and stimulated job-generating enterprises such as Silicon Valley.
Reining in taxes, he said, was resulting in significant spending cuts that were now affecting vitals areas such as schools, community colleges and corrections
"When you talk about cuts, this is not pretty," Brown said. "The blind, the disable, Medi-Cal, the prisons, you name it we have reduced."
Former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told CNN that while social services were necessary, it was more effective to pursue programs to increase employment in order to reduce the need for them.
"We would like you to get a job," Gingrich said. "So you can actually go out on your own."
