Will Rogers once quipped “If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.” Nearly a century later, Californians are faced with a November election that will determine if we are willing to give up whatever dry money we have left in our pockets. According to Gov. Jerry Brown in a recent San Francisco Chronicle article, “We’ve got to pay for what we want … And if we don’t want to pay, then we have to deprive ourselves of that which …