Indian Gambling Tribal Leaders Fund Effort To Hike Taxes They Don’t Pay
As all following California politics know, Governor Jerry Brown, unsuccessful at getting Republican votes to either raise taxes by a vote of the legislature or get GOP votes to place tax increases on the ballot, is now spearheading an effort to place a massive tax increase measure on ballot for this November — seeking to get voters to increase state income taxes on the wealthy, and hike the sales tax for everyone. This is a terrible idea. Newly elected Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff says it well, and succinctly, in a column today in the FlashReport: “Higher taxes are not the answer. There is a better way. New taxes will only cripple the economic recovery now underway in California.”
The Governor and his political allies will have to spend several million dollars to get this initiative qualified for the ballot, and so the main stream media is now starting to report on who is dropping in the big bucks to advance the tax increases. Of course you would expect the state’s public employee unions to be helping. But I was a little taken off… Read More