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"DECEPTION IS A POOR foundation for productive ideas in solving California's $20 billion deficit. Yet both Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state Senate Budget Committee each have resorted to sleight-of-hand tactics in similar schemes that purport to sop up some of the red ink."
The Arnold legacy project moves on. More higher taxes. More violations of State law (remember the large number of lawsuits lost by the Guv based on illegal furloughs and spending cuts--but the budget was "balanced" for a few minutes).
We are about to see a phony, illegal shift of taxes, fees, money going from transit systems to education--all based on gasoline!
"The reason for the shift is that some of the sales tax is designated by Proposition 42 for transit systems, and it is also used to calculate school funding under the Proposition 98 formula.
Excise taxes, on the other hand, can be sent to the general fund to help reduce the deficit. Of course, the voters who passed Prop. 42 would have to be ignored, schools would be shortchanged and total revenues for the state would actually decrease. Motorists could save a few cents a gallon for a while.
One would have thought that such a convoluted gas tax swap would have died a quick death on its lack of merit. But this is California."
This is why the Governor and Sacramento can not be trusted. In the end, the courts will rule on this corruption of the system--Arnold only hopes he is no longer Governor when that happens.
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The Arnold legacy project moves on. More higher taxes. More violations of State law (remember the large number of lawsuits lost by the Guv based on illegal furloughs and spending cuts--but the budget was "balanced" for a few minutes).
We are about to see a phony, illegal shift of taxes, fees, money going from transit systems to education--all based on gasoline!
"The reason for the shift is that some of the sales tax is designated by Proposition 42 for transit systems, and it is also used to calculate school funding under the Proposition 98 formula.
Excise taxes, on the other hand, can be sent to the general fund to help reduce the deficit. Of course, the voters who passed Prop. 42 would have to be ignored, schools would be shortchanged and total revenues for the state would actually decrease. Motorists could save a few cents a gallon for a while.
One would have thought that such a convoluted gas tax swap would have died a quick death on its lack of merit. But this is California."
This is why the Governor and Sacramento can not be trusted. In the end, the courts will rule on this corruption of the system--Arnold only hopes he is no longer Governor when that happens.
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