Attempt to recall lawmaker over tax hikes fails
November 20, 2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A recall effort against a Republican state lawmaker who voted to raise taxes earlier this year has failed. The secretary of state's office said Friday that...
Sacramento Bee - - Capitol Alert
November 20, 2009
| Torey Van Oot
Several Republican lawmakers are taking action today in the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee to change the dialogue from tax hikes to tax credits. Senate GOP leader Dennis...
Wash. budget gap zooms to $ 2. 6B through mid- 2011
November 19, 2009
| CURT WOODWARD
Broad-based tax hikes, such as the levies on sales and business revenue, are probably a last resort because of the fragile economic recovery, Democrats said. Further spending...
Mike Huckabee 2. 0
November 07, 2009
| Power Line
In the 2008 cycle, many of Huckabee's critics -- pointing to his Carteresque foreign policy pronouncements and the tax hikes he imposed as governor -- argued that Huckabee is...
N. C. budget includes $ 1 billion in tax hikes
August 04, 2009
| CharlotteObserver.com
A budget proposal put forward by House and Senate Democrats would spend some $19 billion next year, including tax increases worth $1 billion and cuts across all categories of...
Obamacare Chalk Full Of Taxes
October 30, 2009
| Wake up America
ATR has gone through the massive 1,990 page H.R. 3962, the'' Affordable Health Care for America Act'' and found 13 tax hikes ... ATR lists description of each of these tax hikes. Go look...
Property tax hikes: Blame game kicks off
October 27, 2009
| chicagotribune.com - Local news
Daley lashes out at assessor, whose aide faults General Assembly Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday tried to offer up a scapegoat for the puzzle of why property tax bills are soaring...
Surprised by rising values
October 27, 2009
| indystar.com
The amendment passed the legislature in 2008 after a summer of tax rallies protesting 2007 reassessment and exorbitant tax hikes. But a constitutional amendment cannot take...
How Branstad could benefit from' selective nostalgia'
October 25, 2009
| DesMoinesRegister.com
- Declining state revenue, a slash in services and pending property tax hikes. - Two unresolved wars and a crisis in Pakistan. - A health-care system with escalating costs. -...
Stroger budget skips tax hikes
October 22, 2009
| chicagotribune.com - Local news
Hundreds of county jobs would be cut if plan approved Less than four months before the primary election, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger on Thursday offered up a budget...
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California lawmakers rarely defy party lines, analysis finds
October 31, 2009 |
In exchange for election reform measures, he voted with Democrats on a February budget that included tax hikes. ...
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Schwarzenegger: Republicans who backed tax hikes are' great heroes'
February 22, 2009 |
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a point Sunday on This Week With George Stephanopoulos. In the interview, he said, I hate tax increases, but due to the economy he...
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Since Prop. 13, California officials have had an aversion to tax hikes
September 19, 2009 |
Anti-tax crusader Paul Gann, co-leader of the 1978 campaign for Proposition 13, was a Carmichael salesman. ...
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Schwarzenegger convinced he can get GOP support for tax hikes, Steinberg says
January 06, 2009 |
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg talks to the Sacramento Bee's Capitol Bureau on Wednesday Jan. 7, 2009. ...
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