Governor Schwarzenegger imposes 10% income tax on working class and middle class families in California

Schwarzenegger says that this imposed tax on public employees will raise revenues for the State by $1.2 billion over the next 18 months. How much would be gained by a 10% tax on the gross income of the other 30 million Californians? Perhaps it would be enough to erase the budget shortfall and to fully fund education of public school students in our great state?
If the Democrats who are in the majority in the Assembly and the State Senate were to suggest a 10% tax on gross income of all Californians, the Republicans in the legislature would raise the cry of “class warfare.” It seems that the term class warfare does not apply to sticking it to the poor. It only has meaning if the well off are asked to help share the extra burden on society when the economy has “gone south.”
If only 10 million of our 30 million state residents are income producing, imposing such a tax on their gross income would produce new state revenues of approximately 50 billion dollars or enough to wipe out the deficit and to fully fund education from pre-school through university in California. If it is such a good idea to tax State workers on 10% of their gross income, why not tax all of us the same? If Arnold did so, he could fully fund teachers, police officers, firefighters and have money left over to improve our streets, highways and rail transit. What do you say Mr. Governator?