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Bill to give counties income taxing power OK'd
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 10, 2011 | Wyatt Buchanan

Posted on 06/10/2011 7:15:00 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Sacramento --

Counties, school districts and community colleges would have broad authority to seek taxes on income and products like cigarettes and alcohol under a bill approved by the California Senate this afternoon.

The bill gives local entities power over taxes that currently only the state Legislature can impose. The Senate passed the bill after Republicans, and a handful of Democrats, refused to support a measure sought by Gov. Jerry Brown to place taxes on a special election ballot. That measure needed a two-thirds majority vote from the Senate.

The special election measure would have asked voters this fall to extend and increase taxes through June 2016. But if voters rejected the measure, the taxes still would have been imposed for the remainder of 2011-2012 fiscal year, that ends in June 2012

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: business; markleno; moonbeam; taxes
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Ok that's it. Light the torches, grab the pitchforks, we're off to Sacramento tell these income grabbing, wealth destroying, freedom denying, overpaid parasites that we have had enough.
1 posted on 06/10/2011 7:15:04 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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The Commie ‘RATS sure do like those taxes. As long as they don’t have to pay them.


2 posted on 06/10/2011 7:19:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
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Well, I guess it’s time to shop in Tahoe.

Except for TP and Food I don’t actually have shop in CA for years.


3 posted on 06/10/2011 7:19:56 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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The population of California is going to fall through the floor and businesses are going to flee so fast Brown’s head will spin.

Between the taxes the cities and the state steal from the working people and now the county as well that’s too damn much to put up with.

time to get the moving vans.


4 posted on 06/10/2011 7:21:13 PM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: artichokegrower

More companies and taxpayers will be leaving hourly.


5 posted on 06/10/2011 7:22:23 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: artichokegrower

Would the last taxpayer leaving California please turn off the lights?


6 posted on 06/10/2011 7:24:17 PM PDT by catnipman
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Adding to the exodus out of California.


7 posted on 06/10/2011 7:24:51 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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"Would the last taxpayer leaving California please turn off the lights?"

Leave 'em on. At that point . . . who cares?

8 posted on 06/10/2011 7:27:14 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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And Kali’s socialists wonder where the tax revenue went. It fled the state. Wait until the first jurisdiction that can levy a new tax under this law does so. It will start a stampede.


9 posted on 06/10/2011 7:30:23 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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Wait. Is this law? The language is confusing.


10 posted on 06/10/2011 7:31:10 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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LOL!
Ironically, Democrat counties will raise taxes on... the same Democrat morons who vote for scumbag Democrat politicians! Presumably, Republican counties will not raise taxes. What’s not to like?


11 posted on 06/10/2011 7:31:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Wow.


12 posted on 06/10/2011 7:31:43 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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Is this why TEXAS is doing so well?


13 posted on 06/10/2011 7:32:08 PM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: artichokegrower
California taxpayers


14 posted on 06/10/2011 7:32:42 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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Actually, this bill will never be signed into law. State legislators and governors jealously guard their prerogatives for raising taxes and spending revenues. It’s how they exercise their power, reward their friends, punish their enemies and buy votes.

If they let local governmental entities have essentially unlimited power to raise and spend their own local revenue, then those governmental entities no longer even need a state legislature or governor.

Furthermore, unlimited local revenue raising powers is anathema to true socialists because richer districts can raise all the money they need to spend locally without having to to subsidize the poorer districts through state levies that are redistributed by the state.

This bill represents a complete decentralization of the taxing and spending authority of the state and divestment of the state government of its principal power.

This bill will never be signed into law.


15 posted on 06/10/2011 7:37:04 PM PDT by catnipman
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To: Lancey Howard

Unfortunately most of the counties in California are Democratic.


16 posted on 06/10/2011 7:38:16 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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I'm a resident of Idaho, but when I work 20 or more days in San Diego, my income earned in San Diego is taxed at 10% instead of the 8% Idaho rate. You can bet San Diego County and City will be slapping additional income taxes on real soon. It's bad enough that I have to be over 900 miles from home and paying for a room out of pocket to keep my paycheck. It won't take much more tax abuse for a lower paying job in Idaho to look more desirable.
17 posted on 06/10/2011 7:40:08 PM PDT by Myrddin
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Unfortunately most of the counties in California are Democratic.

Really? I was under the impression that most rat votes came from areas in the vicinity of concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities") and that the bulk of California's land mass was civilized ("Republican").

18 posted on 06/10/2011 7:43:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Myrddin

I wonder if you would be taxed in the county you live or in the county you work. Knowing this band of thieves it probably will be both.


19 posted on 06/10/2011 7:45:13 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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The below map, from the terrible-for-Republicans 2008 election, shows a lot of Republican red in California:


20 posted on 06/10/2011 7:46:12 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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