Great news! Today Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed Senate Bill 927 which we have written about here on our site and which is one of our "Twenty Worst Bill" that are on his desk.
This Bill would have hiked up fees (taxes) on cargo going in and out of the state via Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors.
When I heard about the veto, I immediately got in touch with Jon Coupal over at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (they had vigorously opposed this legislation) and Jon had this to say:
“Governor Schwarzenegger made taxpayers and the business community breathe a little easier today by vetoing a host of “fee” increase proposals. The democrat majority in the California Legislature has increasingly characterized tax increases as “fee” increases in order to avoid certain constitutionally mandated vote requirements – either at the local level or within the Legislature itself. The Governor’s actions are a double win: Fidelity to constitutional requirements to raise taxes and rejecting, as a matter of policy, taxes disguised as “fees.”
Again, great news!