Posted on 03/16/2011 8:09:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Gov. Jerry Brown has voter support for calling a June special election and extending higher taxes, but his window of opportunity may close soon, according to results from the latest Field Poll.
The survey shows voters are more negative toward tax increases than tax extensions, and Brown has only a few weeks left to put his proposals on the ballot as the latter, poll director Mark DiCamillo said.
Still, DiCamillo noted the poll shows a majority of voters support an equal mix of taxes and cuts, as well as a special election to decide taxes.
"Generally, the governor's proposals have been in pretty much in sync with where the public has been coming from," he said. "The problem is that he needs the Legislature to get these on the ballot."
The Legislature has scheduled floor votes today on a budget plan that incorporates most of what Brown proposed in January to erase a $26.6 billion deficit. But there were few signs Tuesday that Democrats had secured the requisite two GOP votes in each house.
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Clearly the Sacbee missed the Miami election yesterday.
My field poll shows I favor extending Brown the middle finger.
If Sac Bee is accurate, then why Dems need GOP to pass law putting the issue up for referendum. They have the votes to do it, why need GOP political cover???
“Let’s send North Dakota a bill for 27 billion dollars. They have low unemployment now. Maybe they don’t look at their bills and just pay them.”
Even here in la la land, despite having a majority of voters registered as Dems, it is risky to raise taxes. The Dems MUST have political cover if they want to raise taxes. It takes the heat away from them when they can claim bipartisanship. Remember, to the Dems, the people are not important, but elections ARE.
I’m stunned by how California repeatedly attempts to destroy itself.
True, but Florida isn't California, either. Florida voters "get it" from time to time.
The ballot measure needs approval by two-thirds. They need two Republican votes in each house.
Hopefully, they will not get them and will have to deal with pension reform versus continuing a tax increase - the continuation (started in 2009): voters would be asked to retain a 0.25 percentage-point increase in personal income-tax rates; a 1 percentage-point boost in the retail-sales tax rate, to 8.25 percent; an increase in the rate for auto-registration fees of 0.5 percentage point, to 1.15 percent of a vehicle’s value; and a reduction of the state’s child tax credit to $99 from $309.
It’s 9.25% to 9.75% in Contra Costa County. It is specious to say that the State has raised sales taxes 1%. In reality, they have actually raised sales taxes 10%. The have raised the RATE 1%.
Each city has a different rate that reflects local tax policy. In other words, there are several different ways government has to screw us relating to sales tax in CA.
I’m hoping that voters will say no if this comes up for a vote - the State is really not looking at cutting all the spending that they need to look at if public employee salary and benefits are not on the table - first up.
More propaganda for tax increases. This poll is part of a concerted effort to create a bandwagon effect. There is a big “boom” out here to raise taxes. However, there will be massive support for more freebies among the illegal aliens.
Really, the people of CA should be allowed to raise taxes if that is their preference. And it must be, for they have voted for high tax candidates for some twenty years now. I wouldn’t want to see CA people denied higher taxes.
CA people are incapable of understanding how raising a sales tax from 9 to 10 percent is anything but a 1 percent increase. You simply can’t explain it to them that it is actually a 10 percent increase. Part of it is the legacy of “New Math” of the 1960s, a popular curriculum in CA.
Also, if the locals create a bunch of “ahem”, unrest, JB can look them in the eye and say “YOU voted for it, shaddup!”
If the Dems start to take heat, as you said, they can pin it on the Rep’s, who are supposed to be “fiscally prudent” and shouldn’t have permitted the referendum to even take place. Plus, he gets the added bonus of calling them the “party of no” while they resist.
Either way, JB is unblemished by the plan because either the voters bear responsibility or the Rep’s do.
That’s why he’s pushing this, it’s not about “letting the voters decide”.
You should have seen the responses to my letter to the editor explaining the actual math before the increases went into effect...
Sheesh, the responses were a clear demonstration/example of the CA “ejukashionul sistum” on display.
I forget... wasn’t “California Field Poll” the poll that predicted Grey Davis winning by a resounding landslide over Ahnuld and the Republican?
When this battle started, the GOP got legal opinions saying they are, in fact, not needed to put this on the ballot. Brown and the Dems reject that reading of the law because they want political cover.
You can’t explain it’s “actually a 10 percent increase” because it’s an 11% increase. 9*11% = 0.99 (~1). 1 + 9 = 10, the new rate.
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