John Myers
May 11, 2016 – 2:07 P.M.
When Gov. Jerry Brown asked California voters to raise taxes in 2012 , he made clear that it was temporary, revenues needed to balance the books for only a few years.
On Wednesday, a coalition of labor and healthcare groups said some of those taxes are needed for a while longer.
“It simply extends the current tax rates on the wealthiest 2% of Californians,” Laphonza Butler, president of Service Employees International Union California, said of an initiative to extend the 2012 personal income taxes through 2030.
Butler and a group of education and healthcare groups announced on Wednesday that they’ve gathered more than 980,000 signatures to earn the tax extension a spot on what looks to be a very long Nov. 8 statewide ballot .
Unlike 2012’s Proposition 30, which temporarily raised the state’s portion of the sales tax and high-earner income taxes, the new initiative is focused only on income taxes. A single person earning more than $263,000 and joint filers earning more than about $526,000 would continue to pay the rates established by Proposition 30.
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Why the hell do I need to stay in Communistfornia?
Anyone who believed Gov. Brown’s promise that the tax would only be temporarily must also believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and the Lakers winning the championship next year.