Posted on 01/06/2009 2:23:11 PM PST by SmithL
Sacramento, CA (AP) -- Republican lawmakers and anti-tax groups on Tuesday sued to block an $18 billion Democratic budget package, claiming it included tax increases that were not passed by the required two-thirds majority in the Legislature.
The lawsuit was filed in the state's 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento and seeks an immediate injunction. Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said the groups want to ensure that lawmakers don't try the same maneuver again.
The budget bill, intended to close a widening state deficit, was passed last month by the Democratic-majority Legislature but has not been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has pledge to veto the bill unless Democrats change it to include concessions on labor and environmental issues that he said would speed up infrastructure projects. Democrats, who hold majorities in the Assembly and Senate, have resisted giving Schwarzenegger everything he wants.
"At this point, there's not a proposal we can support," Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear.
The lawsuit alleged that the Democrats' budget plan violated the state and federal constitutions because it swapped taxes for what Democratic lawmakers referred to as fees and was passed on a simple majority vote.
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I knew they would and if they don’t prevail it means that any curbs on taxation anywhere in the country are gone forever.
Just the way the new fuhrer’s handlers want it.
Has anyone noticed that whichever way this suit goes.....taxpayers pay for the lawyers and the settlement? Just wondering.....
How you sue a proposal? The governor still won’t sign this bill.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
John and Ken (KFI640) Los Angeles have joined this suit.
They are giving it a lot of play on the air, and if nothing else they will educate folks about the legality of raising taxes in their own right or under the name of fees or other types of subterfuge.
Gotta love it.
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