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Tilting California voters toward raising local taxes often involves tricks, manipulation | Dan Walters (opens the original)
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California’s Nov. 3 ballot contains 14 statewide ballot measures and five of them pertain to taxes, including the much-debated Proposition 40, which would tax the wealth of the state’s billionaires. Meanwhile, local ballots are also heavily loaded with measures that would either raise taxes to benefit school districts or local governments or authorize the issuance of bonds that require new taxes to repay. The California Taxpayers Association has counted 273 such measures that, if all passed, wou
Gavin Newsom paddles to the political right with 3 notable vetoes | Dan Walters (opens the original)
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Nearly a half-century ago, while addressing a group of high school students, Jerry Brown enunciated his canoe theory of governance. “The way you have to approach the political process is something like piloting a canoe,” Brown said in 1979, referring to his often abrupt changes of policy. “If you stand up on one side you’ll fall in. If you stand up on the other side you’ll fall in. But if you paddle a little bit on the left side, then paddle a little bit on the right side, you keep going right d
California’s top Democrats struggle but can’t resolve the question of wildfire liability | Dan Walters (opens the original)
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One might assume that with Democrats controlling every lever of political power in California, they could easily resolve issues that emerge from the state’s ultra-complex socioeconomic matrix. Lacking an effective partisan rival and a need for unity, Democrats are free to fragment into factions defined by ideology, geography, gender, ethnicity and, most of all, economic interest. Fundamentally, the Capitol remains a “commodity market,” where interest groups bargain over laws that affect their fi
California’s local governments rush to ask for tax increases before voters get the chance to curb them | Dan Walters (opens the original)
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November’s ballot is dominated by measures that would alter how California levies taxes, including one that would make it more difficult for local governments to gain voter approval of tax hikes. Proposition 43 would overturn a state Supreme Court ruling and require that single-purpose taxes placed on local ballots via initiative petitions get two-thirds voter approval, just as they do when proposed by the governments themselves. The court declared that initiative-based tax measures need only si
How California’s midterm election could shape national political conflicts | Dan Walters (opens the original)
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When a professional political operative describes an election as “nationalized,” it means the outcome could have consequences far beyond the locality in which it occurs and therefore is drawing outside attention and resources. This year’s congressional elections in California are a prime example, with two distinct and unusual aspects. First and most obviously, Democrats are hoping to gain as many as five California seats in the House of Representatives due to a partisan gerrymander of the state’
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