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CA: Pledge Keeps Tax Hikes Off the Table
The Taxpayer Protection Pledge is once again the last line of defense for taxpayers in California's budget battle. Multiple proposals to increase taxes have been put on the table, but the firm commitment to no-new-taxes made by all Republican members of the legislature (with the exception of one, Assemblyman Roger Niello) has been effective in thwarting an assault on taxpayer wallets.
This is the second year in a row that California signers of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge band together, and in doing so are a strong enough caucus to prevent tax hikers' attemts to garner the required two-thirds supermajority for tax increase votes. Senator Tom McClintock, chairman of the Taxpayer Protection Caucus in the senate and his assembly-counterpart Assemblywoman Mimi Walters were able to rally their GOP peers early last year and announced at a press conference that tax increases were now off the table.
And indeed they have been, leaving big spenders in the state fuming. The Sacramento Bee has the story.
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