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  • San Francisco - Budget panel finds consensus elusive (Raise taxes to close budget gap?)

    03/29/2004 6:21:32 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 155+ views
    SFGate.com ^ | 3/29/04 | Ilene Lilchuk - SF Chronicle
    <p>San Francisco's looming budget deficit of $352 million projected for next fiscal year has an unlikely coalition of big business representatives, labor leaders and social service providers talking taxes.</p> <p>In its final meeting Friday before making recommendations to the Board of Supervisors, an advisory group led by Supervisor Fiona Ma didn't come to any conclusions about the hard choices San Francisco must make: whether to tax the rich so the city can keep services for the poor, tax everyone equally or forget the new taxes and force Mayor Gavin Newsom to cut spending.</p>