Posted on 02/16/2012 3:36:40 PM PST by SmithL
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said today that it's time to end sparring over competing measures and rally behind Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative for the November ballot.
The Sacramento Democrat, in what he characterized as a "clarion call," said that Brown's tax initiative appears to be the state's best alternative. Placing competing measures on the ballot could hurt its prospects, he said.
"It's time to get behind the governor's tax initiative," Steinberg said.
"If you have two or three of them on the ballot at one time, they're all at risk of losing," he said.
Brown's proposal would generate nearly $7 billion in budget relief by raising income taxes on high earners and by enacting a half-cent increase in the sales tax.
Two other revenue-raising proposals are being debated among Democrats supporting a tax hike.
The California Federation of Teachers is pushing a tax increase on millionaires, while attorney Molly Munger, an activist on civil rights and education policy issues, is leading a drive to raise state income taxes for all but the poorest Californians to fund schools and early childhood development proposals.
Steinberg, who led a drive to increase taxes on the wealthy seven years ago, said he is convinced that the newly proposed millionaires tax would spark "significant funded opposition" that could sink it at the polls
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FUDS
Blah blah blah..... How can cretins like this get elected.
I can feel the rush as rich people flack to California to invigorate its tax base in the interests of “fairness”
Moonbeam’s tax plan, like dead Taliban, deserves to get urinated on.
Yea that’s right! I said that!
Two days ago a read a Hot Air article posted by SeekAndFind. During the 2009 tax year .5% of the California State income tax returns paid 32% of all California income tax paid. I bet 2010 and 2011 will show an acceleration of that “fair share” trend line.
NO!!!! What it’s time for is to throw your politically corrupt a$$es out. It will be on the ballet and I will vote to make the CA legislature a part time job.
How can cretins like this get elected? That is simple, the voters are even dumber.
And conservatives are too busy knifing each other to stop them.
She has proposed to raise all rates by 1% except for the bottom rate although I have not seen the figure that she defines “as the poorest”. There are currently 7 tax brackets in California which range from 1% to 10.3%.
I think they want to increase the taxes on non millionaires because I bet there are more of them. I have disdain for all of the politicians and non politicians who want more of my money, they should use their own money and stfu http://www.tax-rates.org/California/income-tax
She has proposed to raise all rates by 1% except for the bottom rate although I have not seen the figure that she defines “as the poorest”. There are currently 7 tax brackets in California which range from 1% to 10.3%.
I think they want to increase the taxes on non millionaires because I bet there are more of them. I have disdain for all of the politicians and non politicians who want more of my money, they should use their own money and stfu http://www.tax-rates.org/California/income-tax
ummm...NO
Public employee unions using taxpayer money to elect cronies.
While that question is not mine since they are elected by even bigger cretins your remark points to part of the answer.
Corruption is a huge problem but plain ole stupidity, ignorance and indifference within the electorate are much bigger ones.
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