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  • Reiner Closes in on Calif. Ballot Measure (tax the rich)

    11/18/2005 11:08:52 AM PST · by Ben Mugged · 42 replies · 848+ views
    AP vis Tampa Bay Online ^ | 17 Nov 2005 | JULIET WILLIAMS
    Film director and Democratic activist Rob Reiner has collected more than a million signatures to get an initiative on the June ballot that would fund preschool for all California children. Reiner's measure would increase income tax rates for the top 0.6 percent of income earners to guarantee a year of preschool for all 4-year-olds. "We did this thing the right way. We brought business leaders and labor together to help draft the initiative," he said in a telephone interview after the announcement outside a San Francisco preschool. The initiative would raise an estimated $2.4 billion a year by increasing income...