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Gov. Brown “going directly to voters” for tax raise on “high-income earners”
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/5/11 | Andrew S. Ross

Posted on 12/05/2011 3:59:27 PM PST by SmithL

From “An Open Letter to the People of California”:

I am filing today an initiative with the Attorney General’s office that would generate nearly $7 billion in dedicated funding to protect education and public safety.

I am going directly to the voters because I don’t want to get bogged down in partisan gridlock as happened this year. The stakes are too high.


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


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: classenvy; goldenstate; moonbeam; taxandspend; taxtherich
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To: SmithL

2% and a 1/2 penny increase in the sales tax?

That’s a lot of money coming out of wallet.


21 posted on 12/05/2011 4:26:33 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SmithL

2% and a 1/2 penny increase in the sales tax?

That’s a lot of money coming out of wallet.


22 posted on 12/05/2011 4:27:05 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SmithL

2% and a 1/2 penny increase in the sales tax?

That’s a lot of money coming out of wallet.


23 posted on 12/05/2011 4:27:55 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SmithL

The California Legislature does not represent the voters? Or does not want to go on record as representing the voters?


24 posted on 12/05/2011 4:28:18 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: SmithL

2% and a 1/2 penny increase in the sales tax?

That’s a lot of money coming out of wallet.


25 posted on 12/05/2011 4:28:26 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: ez
Start with a 20% entertainer tax on movie actors and producers.

Finally, a tax I could live with, but bump it to 50% and apply it to all those that receive income from the entertainment industry.

26 posted on 12/05/2011 4:31:58 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: MileHi

Its too late, they are broke Jim...only appearances now...


27 posted on 12/05/2011 4:32:36 PM PST by aces
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To: SmithL

Must take down the Spielburgs, Hanks, Lenos and Sorkins!

Occupy Malibu

Occupy Beverly Hills

Occupy Oprah


28 posted on 12/05/2011 4:32:36 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: SmithL

(”Assuming no one moves away...”)


29 posted on 12/05/2011 4:33:27 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: JMJJR
yeah....Mobocracy...Democracy....Bureaucracy.... Hypocrisy

What the hell is this this “Republic” thingy about anyway????????

30 posted on 12/05/2011 4:35:56 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: SmithL

I suppose this means he will have a staged setting of paid yahoos roboting right along with him.


31 posted on 12/05/2011 4:37:25 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Navy Patriot

Finally, a tax I could live with, but bump it to 50% and apply it to all those that receive income from the entertainment industry.


The way to tell when they are ‘REALLY’ serious is when they start taxing wealth not just income. Because when that happens the bottom of the barrel has been reached.


32 posted on 12/05/2011 4:39:15 PM PST by The Working Man (The mantra for BO's reign...."No Child Left a Dime")
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To: douginthearmy

“Maryland lost 1/3 of their millionaires after a similar tax. The left promised $100 million windfall from the rich but the state actually lost $100 million because so many rich moved out”

Exact same thing happened in Oregon - Voted it in - revenue down by 30%


33 posted on 12/05/2011 4:42:56 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: SmithL
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." James Madison

Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams: letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.:Thomas Jefferson


34 posted on 12/05/2011 4:46:26 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: combat_boots
The California Legislature does not represent the voters? Or does not want to go on record as representing the voters?
Yeah, sorta.

It would take a 2/3 majority for the legislature to raise taxes, or put a tax increase before the voters. The Democrats were two votes shy of that 2/3 majority in each house, and no Republicans would vote for more taxes. Some Democrats claimed they could put a tax increase on the ballot with just a simple majority, but the Governor and Most Democrats were unwilling to do that without a bipartisan endorsement.

Moonbeam has now decided that bipartisanship-be-damned, he wants more taxes. So here we go.

35 posted on 12/05/2011 4:46:37 PM PST by SmithL (Proud Tennessee Volunteer)
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To: SmithL

I say let them do it. Until the “people” face the hard cold world of socialism where there is no money, no jobs, no food on the shelves, and no hope, they will not understand how the world works. They need to feel the pain.


36 posted on 12/05/2011 4:51:23 PM PST by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: calex59

Exactly right! What a moron to include the sales tax in the proposition. I too am a Californian who will vote no regardless and agree, absent the sales tax inclusion, this thing would pass way too easy. How is there equal protection under the law when one economic class of citizens can vote to impose a tax on another? This kind of crap blows and needs to stop on 11/12.


37 posted on 12/05/2011 4:51:50 PM PST by DirtyDawg (eat fruit)
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To: arrogantsob
My guess is the dummies say “hell, yes”

If they were home schooled instead of public schooled, they would know that for every 50K you take out of the pockets of the employer, one employee loses his or her job.

Those who vote democrat or rino get what they deserve.

38 posted on 12/05/2011 4:52:39 PM PST by JakeS (This would be a good time to read John chapter three 1-21)
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To: SmithL

I’m in favor of it. Of course, rich liberals will pack their bags and move to a low-tax jurisdiction. Texas and Florida will welcome a lot more high income ex-Californians, thanks to the absence of a state income tax. I hope Jerry Brown sends other states his cream of the crop. It can’t happen soon enough!


39 posted on 12/05/2011 4:52:39 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: calex59

It will pass. Tax millionaires “all for the children.” The slackers and morons in California like that sort of thing. It goes with the water there.


40 posted on 12/05/2011 4:55:14 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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