PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
June 23, 2011 | 4:04 pm
Gov. Jerry Brown hinted Thursday that if the budget talks with Republicans break down, the initiative fight that would follow would not be limited to Brown’s plans to raise sales, vehicle and income taxes. He said he expects labor groups to pursue changes to Proposition 13, tweaking the current caps on commercial property taxes, if no bipartisan deal can be reached.
“I would expect there will be efforts to accelerate the reassessment of commercial property tax,” Brown said.
During his remarks to about 250 apartment owners and developers at the Moscone Center on Thursday, he acknowledged some of his failures in budget talks, particularly over his proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies. “I wouldn’t be ready to write the obituary of redevelopment agencies,” he said. “They’re very powerful and they’re still alive and well despite my best efforts.”
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How resistant to cutting government spending can you get!
It appears to me that Governor Moonbeam is hellbent on raising taxes in order to maintain high levels of government spending (to appease his welfare collecting constituents and the union bosses I can only assume). I wonder how many people would have been taxed right out of their homes during the most recent housing bubble simply because the values of homes in their neighborhoods doubled and in many cases even tripled? I swear… liberals are most illogical people on the planet. Well… I guess they are the most generous too… with other people’s money.