Despite Prop. 15’s defeat, Californians can still hold big business accountable: Fair tax reform can address the growing inequality in the state, former tech executive Karen Edwards says.
for yourself. did i. i wrote the book on it too wealth of states which outlines all of the policies that you just described. it s just amazing what is happening here. it s so sad because it s so easily corrected. but they just don t have the gumption or the power to do it themselves. it s really sad. charles: i mean, those numbers that jeff flock read off 1600 companies. $76 billion. 275,000 job losses. those are remarkable. huge. charles: just seems to be, you know, almost criminal that any politician elected to head of state would allow that to happen to their state to the citizens in their state. it s terrible. i wrote the book eureka about 8 years ago now. i was very involved with proposition 13. i just finely when schwarzenegger turned to the dark side, charles, i had to get up and pack up. i bought my house in nashville. just think of this beautiful home in bell immediate i bought it with my tax savings for that year period, no mortgage. and i don t have to be in califo
essentially. they re not going to make the difficult decisions, so you know, the question is will taxpayers, and we have known that in california, it s the home of proposition 13, and that s where the taxpayers said no to taxes. it s going to be very interesting to see what happens come november there. jamie: we have to watch it and wonder about our own states. brenda, thank you so much. have a great day. you, too. eric: a lot of us are thinking about mom today. she s easy to love, but not always easy to shop for. we ve got some gifts coming up that she won t want to return.
the money to cities and counties so they can assume control of many state services including mental health, foster care and child welfare. in that way there will be greater accountability, transparency and, hopefully, citizen participation because government will be closer to the people. brown s plan to extend taxes will require support from republicans, who have vowed to oppose all taxes, and, it is a politically risky move, too, voters jeektrejected an extensi taxes two years ago and, it is worried heap chip away at proposition 13, the measure that limited property tax and created a 2/3 vote requirement for new taxes, and, saved californians $500 billion since it was pass back in 1978. changing any part of prop 13 would require voter approval which is highly unlikely, but governor brown says he s now determined to try to convince lawmakers and voters that
this nixon going to china and liberal democrat doing what no republican predecessor has done or does he know it is just political paludim because not only the legislature and governor can solve the problem. i am glad he said it and i recall in 1978 when california passed proposition 13, tax cut governor jerry brown opposed it . he saw what the people wanted he jumped on and implimited it. it may be that he does understand how serious the problem is and that he is the person who is elected to fix it . i will only serve one term and i will do what is right. we can hope that that is the case. but the record of last year and not good. all of the intrusive laws and one of the reasons that california has a budget