Today at 3:00 p.m., Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be convening a meeting of many of the 
leaders in California’s ongoing battle against higher taxes. The Governor, along with senior staff members Mike Genest, the State Director of Finance, as well as Deputy Chiefs of Staff Richard Costigan and Dan Dunmoyer will meet with Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assocation, Larry McCarthy, President of the California Taxpayers Association, Lew Uhler, founder and President of the National Tax Limitation Committee, Kris Hunt, Executive Director of the Contra Costa County Taxpayers Association, and others.
My understanding is that the agenda for this meeting is very straightforward – a discussion about how to hold the line in California against tax increases.
Of course, the biggest opportunity for Democrats to try to jam the Governor a legislative Republicans with tax and spending increases will be the upcoming budget negotiations. It is certainly our hope that the May Revision that is due out in a few weeks can be a good time to take a plan, developed with the consultation of these anti-tax heavyweights, and put it into place.
We’ll be looking for word after the meeting from the many friends of the FlashReport attending on how it went and what was discussed.
Of course it is no coincidence that this meeting is being held today — all of the participants will be especially fired up having just filed their tax returns for 2005!
April 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I wish the Governor or someone in his administration would take the lead and revisit the California Performance Review. A thousand intiatives with billions of projected savings. But the knives came out early and slew the Gov’s premier initiative on reform. CPR was not tried and found wanting; it was judged difficult and abandoned.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am
CPR is good place to begin, but that would require require reducing government.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am
GOODNESS, WE COULD NEVER LET THAT HAPPEN!!!
Allen wood