http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/02/09/giving-the-democrats-more-power-in-california-is-that-what-we-really-want/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/02/09/giving-the-democrats-more-power-in-california-is-that-what-we-really-want/comment-page-1/#comment-89963 suek Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:09:21 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10796#comment-89963 "The local-government part of the proposal would make it easier for municipalities to raise sales taxes, by one percentage point, to fund education and other services."   This is practically fraudulent.  Local governments collect taxes, then send them to the State which disburses them to the various school districts.  The counties do not fund school disctricts in any way.  Raising local taxes "for education" is just another way of raising state taxes, whether it's sales taxes or property taxes.   By the way - sales tax in Ventura County (not a special tax district at this point) is 8.25%.  Los Angeles County is 9.75%, and various districts within LA County are at the 10%  + level. “The local-government part of the proposal would make it easier for municipalities to raise sales taxes, by one percentage point, to fund education and other services.”
 
This is practically fraudulent.  Local governments collect taxes, then send them to the State which disburses them to the various school districts.  The counties do not fund school disctricts in any way.  Raising local taxes “for education” is just another way of raising state taxes, whether it’s sales taxes or property taxes.
 
By the way – sales tax in Ventura County (not a special tax district at this point) is 8.25%.  Los Angeles County is 9.75%, and various districts within LA County are at the 10%  + level.

]]> http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/02/09/giving-the-democrats-more-power-in-california-is-that-what-we-really-want/comment-page-1/#comment-89962 Ymarsakar Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:58:13 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=10796#comment-89962 Don't ever trust anything about the Left, including that it doesn't look like it came from the Left. They're deadly poisonous and prevention is worth a million pounds of cure. Don’t ever trust anything about the Left, including that it doesn’t look like it came from the Left. They’re deadly poisonous and prevention is worth a million pounds of cure.

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