Governor Schwarzenegger wants a temporary one cent sales tax increase to help erase the state budget deficit. We look at the potential economic impact in the first half hour. In the second half hour, a jury of six military officers convicted Osama Bin Laden’s former driver of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guatanamo Bay. The jury, however, cleared him of conspiracy charges.
Guests:
John Myers, Sacramento bureau chief for KQED Public Radio
John Ellwood, professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley
Roger Niello, member of the California State Assembly, District 5 (R-Sacramento) and vice-chair of the Budget Committee
Ruth Wedgewood, law professor at Johns Hopkins University
Stacy Sullivan, counter terrorism adviser at Human Rights Watch
John McChesney, senior correspondent for NPR
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