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  • CA: Governor's review panel mostly ignores messy tax system

    08/18/2004 9:18:41 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 186+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 8/18/04 | Dan Walters
    If someone was performing a top-to-bottom "performance review" of state government with the declared goal of making it more efficient, effective and accountable, a critical examination of its system of levying and collecting taxes would be, one would think, a cornerstone task. What is, after all, more fundamental to the relationship of government to the governed than taxation? And California's system of state and local taxation, which collects roughly $100 billion a year, is particularly worrisome. It has evolved over decades and has become a monument to arbitrary, often nonsensical, policy-making - the disparate sales-tax treatment of hot and cold...