Success for Calif. Tax Measures May Not Be New Trend

California voters had rejected every statewide tax measure since 2004 until they approved two of them last week. They also said yes to 70 percent of the local tax and bond measures on last week’s ballot. But this may not be the start of a new trend.
The passage of Propositions 30 and 39 snapped a seven-measure winning streak for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. But President Jon Coupal says that doesn't mean the attitudes of California voters are changing when it comes to taxes.
"As Mark Twain said, the reports of 'my death are greatly exaggerated,'" said Coupal. "So the suggestion that the tax revolt is somehow dead or mortally wounded, I think, is greatly exaggerated."

Coupal credits several factors as helping Prop 30 across the finish line: Governor Jerry Brown's relentless sales pitch, the temporary nature of the tax increases and an election with heavy Democratic voter turnout.
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