Opponents of Proposition 30 released their first TV ad against the initiative Wednesday.
Crafted by Gov. Jerry Brown, Prop. 30 would raise the state sales tax by a quarter of a percentage point for the next four years and increase the income tax on the wealthiest Californians for the next seven years.
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You know, the funny (or sad) part is, in most well-functioning states the legislature adopts one budget with all incomes on one side (income tax, sales tax, etc.) and all expenses on the other side.
In California, we have somehow come to believe that having legislators setting budget priorities be a bad idea (why do we go through all the trouble of electing them and paying them if we don’t trust them anyway, I don’t know…) and instead budgeting should be done by referendum earmarks – no matter if the budget requirements of all referenda together add up to something inconsistent and out of line with the priorities of the state.