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To: IYAS9YAS

California is bankrupt, going hat in hand for a bailout to the federal government. So you think Californians would want to put their financial house in order and vote down all tax increases and bond measures, right? Wrong.

All tax hikes passed in CA and here in the Bay Area with the sole exception of the increase in sales tax to pay for the extension of BART to San Jose. And that one is too close to call right now. The not-so-funny thing is that, when I moved to CA in 1973, Santa Clara County had passed a 1/4% increase in sales tax a few years earlier to bring BART to Santa Clara County. Where did the 50 years’ collections of that 1/4% go? Now we are at 8-1/4%.


81 posted on 11/06/2008 6:30:37 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“All tax hikes passed in CA”

Are you talking about bonds? I don’t recall any actual tax hikes on my ballot and not even all the bond passed.


103 posted on 11/06/2008 6:42:44 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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