The proposal, floated in meetings with the Legislature's leaders and their staff, hinges on lawmakers agreeing to automatic spending restraints and new powers for governors to cut programs whenever the state falls into the red.
People involved in the negotiations said Schwarzenegger, who has repeatedly vowed never to raise taxes, would back away from the proposal in the absence of the spending controls.
Los Angeles County residents could face a separate half-cent-on-the-dollar sales-tax increase. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has proposed such a measure for the November ballot, with the money to fund transportation projects. If both the MTA and the Schwarzenegger proposals were to be implemented, the sales tax in Los Angeles County would jump to 9.75%.
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- merasyad
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Most Californians seem dumb to me. I say tax-em and let them pay for their own illegals they like so much. I have enough bills I don't need to be paying for illegals food, schools and housing and medical bills.
Raise that tax to 25% and maybe they will send some of them home.
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Tax in America? 8 to 9% state tax, any sales or property tax? yes in some states! Then we have roughly an effective 28% federal tax rate. About 40% of middle American's income is paid in some form of taxes. Draw the line and stop more taxes now!
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Let me get this straight. Lower the taxes on the rich - check. Lower state employee's wages until Arnie gets his way -- check. Raise state taxes--which hurt the lower incomes the most -- check. Mr. Environmentalist sure knows how to help the state doesn't he.
He was a crummy actor and a worse governor. Someone save us from him please.
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- MeganMcKenzie
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