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
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The Commie ‘RATS sure do like those taxes. As long as they don’t have to pay them.
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.
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.
More companies and taxpayers will be leaving hourly.
Would the last taxpayer leaving California please turn off the lights?
Adding to the exodus out of California.
Leave 'em on. At that point . . . who cares?
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.
Wait. Is this law? The language is confusing.
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?
Wow.
Is this why TEXAS is doing so well?
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.
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").
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.
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