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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/amazonlogo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39108\" title=\"amazonlogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/amazonlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>On Tuesday, at the behest of state Republicans, Amazon.com made offline retailers having trouble competing with the online sales giant as well as Democrats having trouble finding revenue to run the state an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/01/3876555/amazon-offers-jobs-to-avert-ballot.html\">offer\u003c/a> both, apparently, could \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18807177\">refuse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for delaying the recently passed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/29/california-affiliates-tweeting-amazon-threatening-to-terminate/\">law\u003c/a> requiring web retailers to collect sales tax from their customers, a dictate that Amazon has not complied with, the company said it would open six California distribution centers, creating 7,000 jobs. It also said it would back off trying to pass a \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/08/amazon-tax-proponents-move-to-invalidate-referendum.html\">referendum\u003c/a> to repeal the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No sale, Democratic leaders, Gov. Jerry Brown, and retailers are saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/governor-questions-whether-the-state-can-afford-amazon-sales-tax-offer.html\">LA Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown on Thursday did not dismiss the Amazon bid out of hand. But, he stressed that he's mostly concerned about losing an estimated $300 million in badly needed state revenues that his budget expected to get once Amazon complies with a new law that took effect on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm concerned about anything that would reduce revenues going forward because we're in a very uncertain economy,\" the governor said after attending an awards ceremony for correctional officers in Sacramento. \"We need more revenues unless we're going to keep curbing schools, courts, corrections.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's Senate President Pro Tem Darryl Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez basically rejecting the deal yesterday. Edited transcript follows the audio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audio: Steinberg and Perez exhibit skepticism on Amazon offer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/demsamazon.mp3|titles=demsamazon]\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Steinberg\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Amazon proposal is interesting but 155 (a bill that would \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/08/amazon-tax-proponents-move-to-invalidate-referendum.html\">nullify\u003c/a> the Amazon referendum) is more interesting, because it upholds the law and guarantees the state will be able to collect the sales tax from Amazon over the next two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think we can afford to say let's just set 400 million dollar aside. I appreciate Amazon wants to talk about creating jobs in California, that's a good thing, but let's focus on trying to get this 155 done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Perez\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me go a little further than that. I think people have phrased this discussion around Amazon in an odd way. They phrased it as if we're trying to pass a new tax on Internet purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not the case. what we're trying to do is make sure we collect the taxes that are already owed. The business practice that Amazon has been engaged in has basically inadvertently made anybody who has purchased on their system a tax cheat.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>We've created thousands, maybe millions of Californians who are cheating the system through no efforts of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All of us -- I count myself among them, -- whether they purchase through a kindle device or on the Amazon web site, have an obligation to pay taxes on our purchases, and assume that as we're doing business on a web site with a legitimate business, that that is being taken care of. But Amazon hasn't done its part of collecting and then moving the taxes to the state as obligated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we've created thousands and thousands, maybe millions of Californians, who are cheating the system through no efforts of their own, no desire of their own to cheat. 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No matter how many jobs Amazon pledges, it does not match the jobs we will lose in California if Amazon doesn't have to collect sales tax. They're just destroying brick and mortars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there an offer they could make that would appease you and the retailers you represent, Lancour asked?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dombrowski: \"Start collecting sales tax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audio: California Retailer Association says offer is a non-starter\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/amazonretailers.mp3|titles=amazonretailers]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the San Francisco Business Times ran a good \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2011/08/26/amazon-not-out-of-the-jungle-yet.htm\">piece\u003c/a> on the Amazon brouhaha, including a look at the company's California subsidiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These may end up being the key to any legal ruling on the conflict. 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Parking Director Noel Pinto made the change without informing Mayor Jean Quan or the City Council, according to Quan, Councilmember Pat Kernighan (Grand Lake-Chinatown), and several furious Grand Avenue shop owners, who said they were outraged and their businesses were harmed by the surprise turnaround.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_18806439\">Oakland police recovering fewer guns\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A spike in violent crimes in recent weeks is putting pressure on Oakland City Hall to answer hard questions about how to stem the violence. But little consensus exists among city leaders about what steps need to be taken next. Mayor Jean Quan is focusing on rehiring some of the 80 laid-off police officers and drawing support from federal law enforcement. 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It's because budget cuts have left the city with fewer law enforcement personnel for specialized enforcement teams who used to target gun crimes, officials say. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/energy/story/partisan-solyndra-obscures-growth-solar/\">Partisan Politicking Obscures Growth of Solar Power\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The surprise announcement Wednesday that Solyndra, the Fremont-based solar power company, would immediately close its doors prompted a round of gleeful I-told-you-so's from Republican Party leaders who have long opposed the Obama administration's green energy programs in general and the $535 million federal loan guarantee for Solyndra in particular. But industry officials and analysts say the partisan knife fight obscures a larger point: that the very economic forces that helped drive Solyndra out of business — namely competition from Chinese manufacturers — are actually contributing to the expansion of solar power in California. Building solar panels in Fremont with government subsidies proved to be a poor means of creating jobs, but the growth of solar as an electricity source continues to accelerate, and that has job-creation (and environmental) benefits of its own.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/02/3879477/california-democrats-backed-by.html\">California Democrats, backed by business, roll out last-minute proposal on regulations\u003c/a> (Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...With one week left in the legislative session, Democrats rolled out a last-minute proposal that requires additional review of new state regulations, backed by the chamber and the California Manufacturers and Technology Association. The fact that business groups and Democrats are embracing one another in the open may be as important as the bill itself. 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But investigators are still unsure exactly what caused Wednesday's blast.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-bruno-fire/ci_18806059\">PG&E fires four inspectors\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>PG&E has fired four inspectors after an internal investigation determined they falsely claimed to have inspected some of the company's underground electrical gear, and four others were disciplined. The probe, which PG&E launched in November after receiving an employee's tip about the phony inspections, was first disclosed publicly in June. Over the past two months, the company reinspected nearly 25,000 underground enclosures containing various electrical equipment and found 25 where inspectors had falsely claimed to have inspected them, according to PG&E spokesman Andrew Souvall.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/business/economy/united-states-showed-no-job-growth-in-august.html?_r=1&hp\">Job Growth at Halt in U.S.; Worst Showing in 11 Months\u003c/a> (NY Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The economy failed to add new jobs in August, the first time there has been no increase in net jobs in the United States in 11 months. The flat performance was down sharply from a revised 85,000 gain of jobs in July, the Labor Department said Friday, and was far below a consensus forecast by economists of 60,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate stayed constant at 9.1 percent in August.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_18807232\">Federal appeals court rejects wrongful death case against Santa Clara cops\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A federal appeals court rejected a wrongful death lawsuit against the Santa Clara police department, finding officers acted reasonably when they shot and killed a young rapper who turned violent at a 2008 house party. In a short ruling, two 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges on Wednesday upheld an earlier decision by a San Jose judge who tossed the lawsuit filed by the family of Aziz Howard Raqmond James. 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Parking Director Noel Pinto made the change without informing Mayor Jean Quan or the City Council, according to Quan, Councilmember Pat Kernighan (Grand Lake-Chinatown), and several furious Grand Avenue shop owners, who said they were outraged and their businesses were harmed by the surprise turnaround.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_18806439\">Oakland police recovering fewer guns\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A spike in violent crimes in recent weeks is putting pressure on Oakland City Hall to answer hard questions about how to stem the violence. But little consensus exists among city leaders about what steps need to be taken next. Mayor Jean Quan is focusing on rehiring some of the 80 laid-off police officers and drawing support from federal law enforcement. 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The $15 million, two-year fire staffing grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency — believed to be the largest awarded to any city — will help restore all the firefighter jobs lost a year ago when city and fire union leaders failed to reach an agreement on pay cuts that city officials said were needed to prevent layoffs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/real-estate/ci_18757506\">Google’s Silicon Valley expansion now includes buying buildings\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Google has purchased numerous office buildings in Mountain View, part of a multipronged property quest that underscores the startling expansion plans of the digital titan. All told, Google this year has spent an estimated $115 million to buy 16 buildings in Mountain View, including a four-building complex a few blocks from the downtown. The purchases are on both sides of Highway 101. 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Thursday, the military announced charges against three Marines accused of beating and taunting the 21-year-old just hours before he killed himself on April 3.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_18759143\">Last key step taken toward removing Alviso from federal Superfund list\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a key step toward removing Alviso from the federal Superfund list as soon as next year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled a long-running dispute with prominent Alviso political leader Dick Santos and his family over asbestos buried on the family’s property. The agreement, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco this week, requires Santos, a member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District board, along with his brother Tony Santos and sister Toni Robinson, to maintain a two-foot thick soil barrier over an 11-acre property, which the EPA says contains asbestos from old pipes and other waste dumped there half a century ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/26/BA4E1KS5EC.DTL\">S.F. sued over police shooting of mentally ill man\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The parents of a mentally ill man who was shot to death by San Francisco police in his home last December sued the city Wednesday, saying the man was not wielding a knife at officers, as they claimed, and posed no threat to them. The federal court suit also alleged that police mishandled the incident because of the city’s elimination in June 2010 of a program that trained officers in dealing with the mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/26/BAN11KRLHA.DTL\">Barry Bonds seeks to have conviction overturned\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Prosecutors were “inventing a new criminal offense mid-trial” when they charged Barry Bonds with obstructing justice based on a single inconclusive answer in his grand jury testimony about drugs, a lawyer for the former Giants star told a federal judge Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/bart-police-shooting/story/commuters-plan-protest-bart-protest/\">Frustrated Commuters May Strike Back\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>…A Facebook page called Commuters Take Back BART suggests there may be a showdown Monday at 5 p.m. at the Civic Center station, when Anonymous, a loose-knit group of online activists and hackers, says it will hold what would be the fourth anti-BART protest in two months.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/08/pension-reform-ads-will-not-feature-jeff-adachis-name-or-photo\">Pension reform ads will not feature Jeff Adachi’s name or photo\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi cannot use his name or photo on any election materials supporting his pension-reform ballot measure because he’s also running for mayor, the Ethics Commission said Thursday.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/08/political-fight-accusations-racism-rock-san-franciscos-chinatown\">Political fight, accusations of racism rock San Francisco’s Chinatown\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Squabbling between prominent power brokers has blown up into a fight highlighting a political rift in San Francisco’s Asian community that could have implications in the mayoral race. 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It turned out it wasn’t, but the incident served as a reminder that more than a year after PG&E began installing the wireless devices the controversy is still going strong — at least in Fairfax. SmartMeter opponents began posting sentries around Fairfax late last week to keep a lookout for PG&E vehicles. They took the action after several Fairfax residents reported finding cards that PG&E representatives had left at their homes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/08/26/MN4F1KS09L.DTL\">Sen. Loni Hancock acts to thwart Amazon referendum\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lawmakers are aiming to torpedo a well-funded referendum that would undo a piece of the budget package requiring major online retailers to collect sales tax. On Thursday, Sen. 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The $15 million, two-year fire staffing grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency — believed to be the largest awarded to any city — will help restore all the firefighter jobs lost a year ago when city and fire union leaders failed to reach an agreement on pay cuts that city officials said were needed to prevent layoffs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/real-estate/ci_18757506\">Google’s Silicon Valley expansion now includes buying buildings\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Google has purchased numerous office buildings in Mountain View, part of a multipronged property quest that underscores the startling expansion plans of the digital titan. All told, Google this year has spent an estimated $115 million to buy 16 buildings in Mountain View, including a four-building complex a few blocks from the downtown. The purchases are on both sides of Highway 101. 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Thursday, the military announced charges against three Marines accused of beating and taunting the 21-year-old just hours before he killed himself on April 3.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_18759143\">Last key step taken toward removing Alviso from federal Superfund list\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a key step toward removing Alviso from the federal Superfund list as soon as next year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled a long-running dispute with prominent Alviso political leader Dick Santos and his family over asbestos buried on the family’s property. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/amazonlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"amazonlogo\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35134\">\u003c/a>Legislative lawyers believe that if a referendum on the new law requiring sales tax collection by online retailers qualifies for the ballot, the law will have to be put on hold until the voters have their say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that opinion holds, it may raise the stakes for a budget written with an expectation of at least $200 million from the law in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are of the opinion that the operation of the statute would be suspended during that time period,\" writes attorneys for the office of the Legislative Counsel in a letter dated Friday to state Sen. 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In part, the quandary is linked to the California Constitution's exclusion of \"urgency statutes\" (which go into effect immediately and require a supermajority legislative vote) and those \"providing for appropriations.\" Until Prop 25 lowered the budget vote in the Legislature, both seemed to apply to the state's annual fiscal plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before Proposition 25,\" the opinion letter states, \"the referendum was applicable only to statutes that did not go into effect immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, write legislative attorneys, the budget can no longer be considered exempt from referendum because Prop 25 didn't explicitly say so. And while the constitution doesn't expressly put a statute on hold once a referendum has qualified for the ballot, Legislative Counsel says the courts have nonetheless operated on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate has been largely theoretical up until now. But news that online giant Amazon \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/07/11/amazon-tax-referendum-filed/#more-9578\">submitted a referendum\u003c/a> and that they appear to have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/16/2466310_strategists-flock-to-looming-amazon.html\">financial and political steam\u003c/a> needed to gather 504,760 valid voter signatures by September 27, qualifying it for the next statewide ballot, makes it very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Legislature's legal beagles are right, the clearing of that hurdle would suspend the law until the day after voters keep it in place or toss it out. The concluding thoughts of their new opinion letter state that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Thus, in the case of a statute, such as AB1X 28, that has gone into immediate effect pursuant to Proposition 25, the proponent of a referendum measure would have 90 days to circulate a petition for signatures and submit the petition for certification, just as with any other statute. During that 90-day period, the statute would remain in effect and be operative, as provided by its terms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/loren-kaye/7693-referendum-rip\">suggested\u003c/a> that the budget and any related bill that includes an \"appropriation\" could, under Prop 25, be immune from the referendum. In part, the quandary is linked to the California Constitution's exclusion of \"urgency statutes\" (which go into effect immediately and require a supermajority legislative vote) and those \"providing for appropriations.\" Until Prop 25 lowered the budget vote in the Legislature, both seemed to apply to the state's annual fiscal plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before Proposition 25,\" the opinion letter states, \"the referendum was applicable only to statutes that did not go into effect immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, write legislative attorneys, the budget can no longer be considered exempt from referendum because Prop 25 didn't explicitly say so. And while the constitution doesn't expressly put a statute on hold once a referendum has qualified for the ballot, Legislative Counsel says the courts have nonetheless operated on that assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This debate has been largely theoretical up until now. But news that online giant Amazon \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/07/11/amazon-tax-referendum-filed/#more-9578\">submitted a referendum\u003c/a> and that they appear to have the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/16/2466310_strategists-flock-to-looming-amazon.html\">financial and political steam\u003c/a> needed to gather 504,760 valid voter signatures by September 27, qualifying it for the next statewide ballot, makes it very real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Legislature's legal beagles are right, the clearing of that hurdle would suspend the law until the day after voters keep it in place or toss it out. The concluding thoughts of their new opinion letter state that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"Thus, in the case of a statute, such as AB1X 28, that has gone into immediate effect pursuant to Proposition 25, the proponent of a referendum measure would have 90 days to circulate a petition for signatures and submit the petition for certification, just as with any other statute. During that 90-day period, the statute would remain in effect and be operative, as provided by its terms. However, if the referendum were certified...the statute immediately would be stayed and would remain stayed until an election is held for the referendum measure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note that the passage above does not allow Amazon and other online retailers to thumb their noses at the new state law in the interim, though they've clearly seemed to say that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388003,00.asp\">what they'll do\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the state Board of Equalization is scheduled to discuss implementation of the new law at a meeting here in Sacramento tomorrow morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final, and fascinating, point: at the same time the Amazon tax referendum is on the streets for signatures, a bill awaits action by Governor Jerry Brown to cancel the February 2012 presidential primary, moving the race for the White House back to the Golden State's regularly scheduled primary in June. That would mean, if the Amazon tax referendum qualifies and this legal opinion is accurate, the law would be suspended for more than eight months until the June election... thus costing the state budget money on which it's counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, who argued the cancellation of the February primary would save the state money, may now not be so thrilled. Meantime, one of the opponents of nixing the February election \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/07/california-presidential-primary-june-2012-assembly-bill-80.html\">quoted during floor debate\u003c/a> as saying so: Sen. Anderson, who requested the legal opinion and now may be happy his position didn't carry the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow John Myers on \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Twitter\u003c/a> or at \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/kqed_capnotes\">Capital Notes\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Service was disrupted at the Civic Center, 16th Street and Powell Street stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/12/MNNG1K97E4.DTL\">In court, PG&E deflects blame for San Bruno blast\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which issued a public apology last month for September’s natural gas explosion in San Bruno, says in a new court filing that it should not have to make payouts to victims who have sued the company because the blast was caused by third-party damage to a “state of the art” pipeline. The company also indicated it would seek to assign some of the blame for the losses from the explosion to residents themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/12/3762952/amazoncom-plans-to-take-online.html\">Amazon.com plans to take online tax fight to the ballot in California\u003c/a> (Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amazon.com, in a fresh attack on California’s new online sales tax law, is pushing a ballot referendum to have the law repealed. The Internet retailer Monday called it “a referendum on jobs and investment in California.” The effort comes two weeks after the law was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. It requires online merchants to collect sales tax on goods purchased by Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-redistricting-20110712,0,7415960.story\">Redistricting panel cancels second draft of legislative maps\u003c/a> (LA Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>he citizens panel that for the first time is determining California’s new voting districts has canceled second drafts of its proposed maps, drawing heavy criticism Monday from interest groups that complained of being left out of the process. Under pressure to meet a July 28 deadline for finishing the new boundaries, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission decided not to release a second draft of them this week as scheduled but to continue working on what it hopes will be the final maps. Commissioners said that would allow them to concentrate on gathering more information and crafting the best possible districts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/11/MNGL1K75DC.DTL\">Bay Area counties brace for influx of inmates\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tens of thousands of convicted felons and parole violators in California will be diverted from state prison to county supervision, sending local criminal justice officials scrambling to meet the added demands on their jails, probation offices, courts and social services, all without any assurance of adequate funding. Local law enforcement authorities anticipate a jump in crime with fewer criminals locked up in state prisons and worry about more trouble behind bars in the county lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/12/MNCU1K95TD.DTL\">America’s Cup preparations under way for the bay\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Almost 500,000 people could crowd onto the shores of San Francisco and Marin to watch sailboats whiz past Alcatraz in a race for the America’s Cup, according to the first complete look at the unique benefits – and headaches – the event will bring to the city. The draft environmental impact report, released Monday, is the most detailed description of the 2013 America’s Cup race to be published since the city won the right to host the race last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_18458052\">California law updated to include cyberbullying by students through social networking sites\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An existing California law that gives school officials the right to suspend or expel a student for bullying another student over the Internet or by other electronic means has been updated to include bullying others through social networking websites. The bill, AB 746, sponsored by Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose) goes into effect Jan. 1, after it was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/12/BA551K9969.DTL\">Hunters Point redevelopment given OK to progress\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A San Francisco judge has tossed out most of a legal challenge to the controversial plan to convert the shuttered Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and nearby Candlestick Point into a new neighborhood with more than 10,500 homes, clearing the way for work to begin on the project. Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith, in a 37-page ruling made public Monday, found that the environmental review for the mega-project was adequate in all regards except one: the early transfer of some parcels of the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_18457441\">Bay Area diabetes camps canceled, hundreds of kids out of luck\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Just weeks before hundreds of children with diabetes were to set off for summer camps at Sequoia Lake and the Santa Cruz Mountains, the San Jose-based nonprofit that ran these programs for more than three decades has abruptly shut down, leaving kids like Draven Miller with packed bags and no place to go. The only warning that parents received from the Diabetes Society was an email about the cancellations that included an ominous message: You can try to apply for a refund, or write off the $600 to $700 in camper fees as a donation.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/12/MN871K94C6.DTL\">Fabian Núñez’s words enrage slain man’s family\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez on Monday infuriated the family of a slain man by questioning the use of taxpayer dollars on court proceedings in which the family seeks to overturn a controversial sentence commutation that benefited Núñez’s son. In one of his last acts in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Esteban Núñez’s 16-year voluntary manslaughter sentence to seven years, and later said he did it to help his friend, the former speaker. 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California’s Department of Transportation chose Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries to fabricate the steel girders and tower meant to improve the earthquake resistance of the bridge linking San Francisco and Oakland after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake collapsed part of the bridge. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/alleged-picasso-thief-plead-not-guilty/\">Alleged Picasso Thief to Plead Not Guilty Friday\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accused Picasso thief Mark Lugo appeared briefly in San Francisco Superior Court Monday afternoon with his lawyer, local defense attorney Douglas Horngrad. Judge Samuel Feng postponed Lugo’s arraignment until Friday and kept his bail at $5 million…“Nobody is dead. Nobody’s been assaulted. 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The draft environmental impact report, released Monday, is the most detailed description of the 2013 America’s Cup race to be published since the city won the right to host the race last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_18458052\">California law updated to include cyberbullying by students through social networking sites\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An existing California law that gives school officials the right to suspend or expel a student for bullying another student over the Internet or by other electronic means has been updated to include bullying others through social networking websites. The bill, AB 746, sponsored by Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose) goes into effect Jan. 1, after it was signed into law by Gov. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26469\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/school1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/school1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"California Town A 'Sanctuary' For Illegal Immigrants\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26469\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: David McNew, Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In these days of rampant and uncivil disagreement, you could probably put a resolution in praise of oxygen on the ballot and still not get a two-thirds majority. 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However, unlike standard property taxes, which are based on the value of the property, a parcel tax is an assessment based on the characteristics of the parcel. School districts have created assessments that range from flat amounts per parcel to assessments based on parcel lot square footage or building square foot. Some school districts have assessed residential parcels using one method and non-residential using another method. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how’d these school districts manage do it? Campaign consultants! says this \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/districts-campaign-consultants-parcel/\">Bay Citizen report\u003c/a>. On the other hand, Ballotpedia says that 54% of all parcel tax elections in California have passed since 1983. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a round-up of results for all the parcel taxes on the ballot May 3rd: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17996281\">Parcel tax for Los Altos school district ekes out win\u003c/a> (Palo Alto Daily News) – “Voters narrowly passed the Los Altos School District’s controversial $193 annual parcel tax, updated election results show.”\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/sunnyvale/ci_17992461\">Sunnyvale School District’s Measure B passes with nearly 70 percent approval\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News) – “More than 7,000 voters passed the Sunnyvale School District’s first parcel tax Tuesday…Measure B will cost property owners in the school district $59 annually for seven years starting in July.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.losgatosobserver.com/2011/05/04/measure_a_parcel_tax_gets_voter_approval\">Los Gatos Measure A Parcel Tax Gets Voter Approval\u003c/a> (Los Gatos Observer) – “The $49 parcel tax will be assessed for six years to residents in the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District. It passed Tuesday evening in an all-mail election.”\u003c!--more-->\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_17993198?source=rss\">Voters approve second parcel tax in 2 years for Cupertino Union School District\u003c/a> (Cupertino Courier) – “For the second time in two years, residents in the Cupertino Union School District voted for higher taxes to help fund their neighborhood schools. Measure C, a ballot measure asking residents to approve a second $125 per parcel tax, was passed on May 3.”\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_17986747\">Dixie parcel tax passes with ease\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal) – “Voters overwhelmingly approved a parcel tax hike Tuesday in the Dixie School District, raising the annual tax by $107, to a new total of $352, for the next eight years.”\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_17988490\">Parcel tax for Ravenswood schools passes\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News) – “Measure B will increase the current tax for East Palo Alto and some Menlo Park residents from $98 to $196 and extend it four more years.”\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contra-costa-county/ci_17986536?nclick_check=1\">Lafayette voters pass Measure B school tax\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times) – “The initial count of 10,048 ballots shows Measure B, a $176-per-parcel tax, passing with 74 percent of the vote, easily clearing the required two-thirds voter approval threshold.”\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_17988487\">San Carlos voters overwhelmingly pass $110.60 parcel tax for schools\u003c/a> – San Carlos residents overwhelmingly extended for eight more years a $110.60 annual parcel tax that will help schools weather the rough economy, Tuesday’s preliminary election results show.\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_17993090\">Pleasanton school district moves forward after parcel tax defeat, expects more cuts\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times) – “The Alameda County Registrar of Voters issued updated results Wednesday for Tuesday’s special mail-only election for Measure E. Only 65.31 percent of those casting ballots voted for the $98-per-parcel tax, shy of the required two-thirds majority.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/bay-area-news/ci_17994280\">New Haven tax supporters cry foul as measure is defeated\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times) – Supporters of the New Haven school district’s proposed parcel tax cried foul Wednesday, saying some ballots weren’t counted as the measure was defeated in an agonizingly close mail-in election…The $180-per-parcel tax would raise about $3 million a year for the cash-strapped district, which is facing layoffs and other cuts, including raising K-3 class sizes to 30-to-1, reducing work days, eliminating the adult education program, and eliminating funding for extracurricular and co-curricular programs. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2011/05/jefferson-union-high-school-district-parcel-tax-fails\">Jefferson Union High School District parcel tax fails\u003c/a> (SF Examiner) – “Residents in Daly City, Brisbane, Colma and Pacifica rejected Measure C, a $96-per-year tax that would have lasted for four years.”\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17986863\">John Swett parcel tax measure losing\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times) – “The tax would have cost $60 per residential parcel and 0.0085 of 1 cent per square foot for commercial and industrial properties over four years, raising about $990,000 a year for local schools. 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That's down from last November, when 44 percent wanted the budget gap to be closed with spending cuts alone. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A clear majority of those surveyed favor a variety of pension reform measures for public employees, all of which would require them to contribute more to their retirement benefits. Most people wanted these changes for both future and current employees.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nKQED newcaster Joshua Johnson spoke to Dan Schnur, Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://dornsife.usc.edu/unruh/\">Jess Unruh Institute of Politics\u003c/a> at USC. On the issue of tax extensions, Schnur credited Jerry Brown with successfully getting his message out on a mixed cuts/taxes approach. Schnur also said that the poll revealed voters as \"vehement\" about getting a chance to vote on the tax extension, which is also favored by Brown, but opposed by Republicans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On pension reform, Schnur said that he's \"never seen an issue arise on the political landscape so quickly and with such force.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/timesuscpoll.mp\">Listen to Dan Schnur's analysis of the poll findings\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/timesuscpoll.mp3|titles=timesuscpoll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/23/3574270/california-voters-support-tax.html?storylink=lingospot_related_articles\">poll results\u003c/a> here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you want a little taste of the kind of retail politicking that the governor is engaging in as he tries to build support around the state for his stalled tax plan, KQED's John Myers shot this short \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0jKWuU0IaE\">video\u003c/a> at a budget town hall meeting at Santa Clarita's Hart High School last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/K0jKWuU0IaE\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More on the ongoing budget melee in John Myers' latest \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/04/22/podcast-road-show/\">Capital Notes podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here's Chronicle footage of Brown being shown a schematic of the mind of a California Republican legislator, as he searches for any advantage in upcoming negotiations. (Okay, not really. It was an encounter with Watson, the Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, in Silicon Valley.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=915408260001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 12:34 p.m.\u003c/em> Lest you think this poll data is going to soften the hearts of the California GOP toward an election on taxes, publicly at least they ain't biting. Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/statement_1430.htm\">statement\u003c/a> released by California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"This poll is a trial lawyer's dream, judging by the way the respondents were systematically led to the conclusion that higher taxes are the only 'reasonable' solution to California's budget crisis. Jerry Brown's claim that his budget plan produces $14 billion in cuts is pure fiction and any attempt to use that figure as the major focus for polling is completely disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The analysis makes it clear: the bills Governor Brown signed total only $7 billion in cuts, and $7.5 billion in funding shifts, cutbacks to planned spending, and other budget gimmicks. On the other hand, there's no disputing that Jerry's tax plan calls for $60 billion in new taxes over the next five years while his spending plan will increase the state budget by 30% over the next three years. If the participants had been given all the facts, instead of a few leading questions, this poll would've turned out quite differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even with misleading data and skewed sampling, this poll still could only produce the barest of majorities to agree with its flawed premise, a figure that will not hold up in any true election.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you want a little taste of the kind of retail politicking that the governor is engaging in as he tries to build support around the state for his stalled tax plan, KQED's John Myers shot this short \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0jKWuU0IaE\">video\u003c/a> at a budget town hall meeting at Santa Clarita's Hart High School last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/K0jKWuU0IaE\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More on the ongoing budget melee in John Myers' latest \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2011/04/22/podcast-road-show/\">Capital Notes podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here's Chronicle footage of Brown being shown a schematic of the mind of a California Republican legislator, as he searches for any advantage in upcoming negotiations. (Okay, not really. It was an encounter with Watson, the Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, in Silicon Valley.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=915408260001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 12:34 p.m.\u003c/em> Lest you think this poll data is going to soften the hearts of the California GOP toward an election on taxes, publicly at least they ain't biting. Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cagop.org/index.cfm/statement_1430.htm\">statement\u003c/a> released by California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"This poll is a trial lawyer's dream, judging by the way the respondents were systematically led to the conclusion that higher taxes are the only 'reasonable' solution to California's budget crisis. Jerry Brown's claim that his budget plan produces $14 billion in cuts is pure fiction and any attempt to use that figure as the major focus for polling is completely disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The analysis makes it clear: the bills Governor Brown signed total only $7 billion in cuts, and $7.5 billion in funding shifts, cutbacks to planned spending, and other budget gimmicks. On the other hand, there's no disputing that Jerry's tax plan calls for $60 billion in new taxes over the next five years while his spending plan will increase the state budget by 30% over the next three years. If the participants had been given all the facts, instead of a few leading questions, this poll would've turned out quite differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even with misleading data and skewed sampling, this poll still could only produce the barest of majorities to agree with its flawed premise, a figure that will not hold up in any true election.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "How Much Are California's Temporary Taxes Costing You Now? ",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24274\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/98487841.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-24274\" title=\"A woman rushes to mail her tax returns\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/98487841-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman rushes to mail her tax returns before the last mail collection at a mailbox on the US Tax Day in Los Angeles on April 15, 2010. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin\">Ben Franklin \u003c/a> said, \"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he didn't live in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the current budget debate, taxes are the one thing that is decidedly \u003cem>uncertain\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In taking the state roughly halfway to a balanced budget, Governor Jerry Brown and legislators have already signed off on billions of dollars worth of \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-03-25/bay-area/29187171_1_deeper-reductions-state-cuts-brown-signs\">spending reductions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how to close the remainder of the yawning gap between money coming in and going out is the subject of a titanic Sacramento \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/state-budget-2/\">dispute\u003c/a>. Which is nothing new, except for this wrinkle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and his fellow Dems, who have already had to swallow what they consider to be drastic cuts to programs near and dear to some of their constituents, want to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>extend three taxes due to expire this year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nRepublicans, most of whom have signed an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/10/in-budget-battle-brown-locks-horns-with-the-big-daddy-of-tax-cutters-grover-norquist/\">anti-tax pledge\u003c/a>, are adamantly opposed to even putting the question up for a vote, let alone passing it.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Amid this debate that is frequently carried on via ideological oratory pegged to familiar themes of Big Government versus Our Money, it may be useful to citizens to determine just how much the taxes in question are actually costing them as individuals.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the state cannot raise new revenue by way of taxes, and does not resort to the accounting \"\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/24/local/me-budget24\">gimmicks\u003c/a>\" that lawmakers have relied on in the past to help fill budget holes, then the only option will be to enact even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/15/3403228/californias-legislative-analyst.html\">more severe cuts\u003c/a>, many of which will come out of K-12 schools and higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But amid this debate that is frequently carried on via ideological oratory pegged to familiar themes of Big Government versus Our Money, it may be useful to citizens to determine just how much the taxes in question -- the ones that Brown wants to put on the ballot and have been tallied up as $15 billion in the aggregate -- are actually costing them, as individuals. After all, people aren't going to pay the entire $15 billion themselves -- everyone contributes a different amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what I mean is, to put it in the most self-interested terms possible: What's it gonna cost me? What's my portion of the $15 bil? A few hundred, a few thousand? Less? More?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In trying to figure this out, I turned to KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes\">John Myers\u003c/a>. Listen to our conversation, in which he explains what the three taxes and their rates are, below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/MyersTaxesFinal.mp3\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/a>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/MyersTaxesFinal.mp3|titles=MyersTaxesFinal]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't have time to listen? Stay with me. Here it is in a nutshell. (Remember, you're currently paying these now. \u003cem>If\u003c/em> Brown managed to get his package on the ballot and \u003cem>if\u003c/em> voters approved it, you'd keep paying them. If that doesn't happen, they expire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3 Tax Extensions Dems Want on the Ballot:\u003c/h2>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>A surcharge on income tax of .25%. This has already lapsed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The retention of a sales tax rate of 6%, currently scheduled to roll back to 5%. (That's the state's portion. Municipalities tack on extra amounts, so you may pay as high as 10% total.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A vehicle license fee of 1.15% on the value of your car, scheduled for a reduction to .65%\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>So, how do you figure out what these are costing you now? Or, put another way, how much will you save if they don't get extended?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>1. Income Tax Surcharge\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Here's what Jay Chamberlain of the California Department of Finance told me about estimating the amount that the personal income tax surcharge costs you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is generally true that you can calculate your additional tax by multiplying 0.0025 times your taxable income. For some taxpayers who would be nontaxable without the surcharge, the tax increase would be somewhat less.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So let's just say you look at your tax return last year and see that your taxable income, to use a random number, was $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiply that $50,000 by .0025, and you'll find that this particular tax cost you $125.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your taxable income is double, $100,000, then your liability, of course, doubles for this tax to $250.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>2. Vehicle License Fee\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In 2009, when the VLF increased from .65 percent to 1.15 percent, the DMV counseled drivers how to figure out how much more they would pay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Generally the increase is approximately $5.00 per $1000 in vehicle value. For example, a vehicle valued at $5,000 (when purchased) would see an increase of approximately $25.00.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So reverse that process, and figure that your VLF will \u003cem>decrease\u003c/em> by $5 per $1000 in vehicle value if the tax extensions don't go through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV provides a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/FeeCalculatorWeb/vlfForm.do\">VLF calculator\u003c/a> to find out your fee. Because the fee is based on the car's purchase price and depreciated each year according to a pre-set schedule, your VLF goes down as your car gets older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For an example of the kind of dough the VLF costs, my 1999 New Beetle (hey, I work in public radio, haters) was $41 last year. So personally, the reduction in that particular fee is not something I'm going to join the Tea Party over. But if you own a new, expensive car, the scheduled reduction could be substantial. The fee is listed on your car registration, or again, check out the DMV calculator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're not familiar with the VLF, well, Gray Davis certainly recalls it -- because it recalled Gray Davis. Meaning that an increase in the fee played a big part in the recall of the governor and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here's John Myers talking about the political powderkeg the fee turned out to be and Davis' take on it after he was ousted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/MyersTaxesCar.mp3\">\u003cem>Listen to John Myers on the politically explosive Vehicle Registration Fee\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/04/MyersTaxesCar.mp3|titles=MyersTaxesCar]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>3. Six Percent Sales Tax Extension (instead of 5%)\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>That's a hard one to figure. Basically, if the extensions don't go through, you'll save that extra 1% at the cash register. So you have to estimate how much you spend, while keeping in mind that \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub61.pdf\">not everything\u003c/a> in California is taxable. From the Dept. of Finance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Generally, all tangible goods are taxable, but services and intangibles (e.g. downloaded music or software) are not taxable. As far as tangible goods go, housing, food for home consumption, prescription drugs, and gas (for heating, not the kind you put in your car), electricity and water are exempted from the sales tax. Because of the gas tax swap enacted in 2010, gasoline purchases would be exempt from the 1.0% surcharge as well.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So you \u003cem>could\u003c/em> potentially estimate the amount of all your purchases in a single year, excluding the goods that are exempted, then multiply that amount by 1%. And that's how much more you'd pay if the tax extensions are passed, or save if they don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, just figure it this way: Let's say you buy a TV for $600. The extra 1% tax costs you $6. If you eat out at a restaurant for $40, that's an extra 40 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way to go at it: About how much do you spend a month on goods, minus grocery items and other items not subject to the sales tax? 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