Sin taxes: The cigarette tax would increase by 10 to 15 cents per pack. Lawmakers are not saying yet how much they would increase the taxes on alcohol.
Income tax: A 2 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income tax liability for all taxpayers. The surcharge would expire in two years.
Increase taxes during a severe recession? Brilliant.
These people are meatheads.
Hope and Change was one big old lie.
Only the people that voted for this national nightmare should heve to pay all the new taxes.
Democrats=Raise taxes..cut defense..expand government. Every time.
It is telling to listen to Democrats when taxes are the issue.
It’s always pain, suffering, cuts, slashes, etc.
In truth the only pain felt is by these drunken sailor spenders (with apologies to drunken sailors)...of course raising taxes is their first, last and only response.
“Proposals include cutting thousands of teacher jobs and raising the average class size, reducing health care benefits for the poor and closing prisons.”
Here we go again. What happened to the usual threat of reducing fire, police and sanitation budgets?
If all citizens were forced to walk through a state government office and see the true magnitude of sloth and waste in do-nothing jobs then perhaps these scare tactics would be laughed at for the joke they are.
NC - when did you go Yankee?
Measures like this will go a long way to ease the housing problem in California. Housing prices must drop as great numbers of prospective emigrants put their homes on the market.
The surcharge would never expire and probably will have to be raised because of the shortfall resulting from large numbers of taxpayers leaving the state.
So siphoning wealth from productive citizens to the destructive state is going to solve something?
NC ping. Time to change the state motto to “BOHICA.”
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We need a recall provision in NC so Tax-Rev Bev can be sent packing.