Guns, gas and soda - most California tax proposals died at the Capitol, but a few remain

[TexasTowelie]

California lawmakers this year put forward new tax proposals that would have hit soda drinkers, bankers and gun owners — not to mention anyone with a car.

Most of those proposals died this week in a major culling of bills, leaving only a handful of tax measures in place.

Some of them died before they reached the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees, while others were pulled by their authors. The remaining were left to consideration on Thursday by the two checkpoint committees that decide which bills can move forward this legislative session.

Loren Kaye of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education in April estimated the tax proposals amounted to $15 billion in additional potential fees in a year when the state is projecting a $22 billion surplus.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article230504724.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. I wish they would give some money to public education.

CA is rated 42 out of all the states according to how much it spends per student. We don't even have printers in our classrooms and nor art or music, etc. Fifteen years ago it was rated 48, way to go CA!