Monthly Archive for Taxes
Taxes Stories Posted in November 2007
Opinion: Coalition Seeks to End Abusive Property Seizure
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
Last week, a coalition led by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association announced that more than one million signatures have been collected to qualify the California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act (CPOFPA) for the June 2008 ballot. This eminent domain reform measure will stop government from taking homes, family farms, small business and places of worship and giving the land to other private interests.
Opinion: MOUNTAIN VIEWS: BIG APPLE PARTIES AT OUR EXPENSE
Category: Taxes · State: New York · Source: Niagara Falls Reporter
Every once in a while, since I reached the age of reason, I've heard residents of upstate New York, particularly Western New York, talk about "seceding" from New York City. The thought-to-word process usually took the form of mumbling and grumbling about some new fiscal atrocity dreamed up by Big Apple legislators and visited upon the upstate regions, which benighted Manhattan residents seem to think is generally centered somewhere around Peekskill. More often than not, I was amused. Now, I am paying attention.
Tri-City drawing up plans for another bond measure
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Union Tribune
The cost only goes up with waiting. At least that could be the case for Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. Last year, voters twice rejected $596 million bond measures to upgrade and expand the public hospital to meet the state's tougher earthquake standards and to accommodate a growing population.
Constitutional questions about 601 go unanswered
Category: Tim Eyman · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Times
The state Supreme Court agreed unanimously this morning to uphold increases in tobacco and alcohol taxes approved by the 2005 Legislature. But no substantive constitutional issues were settled. For the second time the court sidestepped the issue of whether the 1993 voter-approved Initiative 601 was constitutional. In 1994 the court declined to rule on a challenge to implementation of the law, saying the plaintiffs could not yet show any harm from the measure.
Proposed S.F. ballot measure not tied to 49ers
Category: Stadiums · State: California · Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A coalition led by developer Lennar Corp. took a first step Tuesday toward asking San Francisco voters to approve new zoning for a remake of Candlestick Point and adjacent Hunters Point Shipyard into a new neighborhood that could feature thousands of homes, retail shops, industry, parks and, potentially, a new 49ers stadium.
SF Gears Up for Push to Keep 49ers
Category: Stadiums · State: California · Source: KCBS 740AM
San Francisco is about to charge forward with a game plan designed to keep the 49ers in the city instead of moving to Santa Clara, despite the team’s intention to relocate even if a new stadium is approved for Hunters Point.
Eminent domain state ballot measure takes aim at rent control
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Property rights activists are once again pushing a ballot measure aimed at restricting government's use of eminent domain, but this time there's a secondary target - rent-control ordinances.
Quality of roadways at heart of Measure D
Category: Transportation · State: California · Source: Santa Maria Times
Plans presented Thursday for spending Measure D monies - if Santa Barbara County voters renew that transportation tax next year - focus on highway and road improvements in the North County.
Opinion: Voters were hoodwinked into passing city's sweeping new tax
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Gilroy Dispatch
We're both surprised and saddened that Measure A, the vague, voluminous and misleading communication user's tax, was approved by Gilroy voters last week.
Heritage district campaign begins
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Mail Tribune
Jackson County's historic preservation advocates will ask voters in November 2008 to create a countywide heritage district that would raise about $1 million per year to maintain collections of artifacts and historic properties such as the old county courthouse in Jacksonville.
Bush cites Oregon measure, says voters are sick of tax-and-spend
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Associated Press
An Oregon ballot measure entered the national debate over taxes and spending Tuesday as President Bush said the defeat of Measure 50 showed voters are sick of overspending by Democrats.
Taxes, Stem Cell Funding, School Vouchers Rebuffed in Ballot Measure Voting
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Oregon Utah Washington · Source: Congressional Quarterly
“Off-year” elections do not attract the large number of referendums and issue initiatives that are typically found on ballots in presidential and congressional election years. But Tuesday, the Election Day for most states holding 2007 contests, featured a handful of ballot propositions that had national implications. The following are analyses of the outcomes of four of these measures.
Voters Reject Slew of Ballot Measures
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Texas Utah · Source: Associated Press
Cost-conscious voters rejected school vouchers for Utah students, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and higher cigarette taxes in Oregon to fund health care for uninsured children.
Proposition 1: Voters hit the brakes
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Voters in the central Puget Sound counties were rejecting the biggest transportation tax proposal in state history, one designed to unite transit and highway advocates to improve regional traffic congestion.
Voters favor insurance bill, rainy-day fund; Eyman's anti-tax measure passing
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: The Seattle Times
Despite a record-setting deluge of spending by the insurance industry, voters on Tuesday handily approved a measure that allows policyholders to sue for triple damages if an insurance company "unreasonably" denies a legitimate claim.
New Jersey Voters Reject Ballot Measure for Property-Tax Relief
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: Bloomberg
New Jersey voters rejected a ballot measure that would have dedicated all of the proceeds of last year's sales-tax increase to reducing the state's property taxes, the highest in the nation.
Initiatives: Insurance reform gets a big yes from voters
Category: Tim Eyman · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The insurance industry's $11.5 million campaign to repeal new consumer protection legislation was defeated Tuesday night.
New Jersey Election Results!
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: Courier Post
Tuesday's ballot included four public questions, the most put before the voters at one time since 1995. New Jersey voters haven't rejected a statewide ballot question since 1990.
Sequim library backers eager to try ballot measure for expansion
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: Peninsula Daily News
This place is minuscule compared with some other Sequim structures - which is part of the reason why its Friends are raring to expand it.
Property tax caps could hit 2008 ballot
Category: Taxes · State: Arizona · Source: Phoenix Business Journal
Arizona voters could get a chance next year to approve California-style property tax caps. A new ballot measure --Prop 13 Arizona -- is being pushed by the anti-tax crowd. It is aimed at limiting property tax increases that have occurred in the Phoenix and Kingman areas in recent years and is similar to California's Proposition 13.
Portable tax relief might carry costly legal baggage
Category: Taxes · State: Florida · Source: Palm Beach Post
To sweeten the property tax relief measure on the Jan. 29 ballot, legislators have embraced a concept known as portability, allowing residents to take their capped tax savings with them when they move. It could be the measure's undoing.
Mass transit plan makes waves in Seattle ecotopia
Category: Transportation · State: Washington · Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Whether you're talking about its lush, rain-drenched lawns or its pro-earth policies, Seattle ranks among the greenest of American cities. But to experience the beauty of the Emerald City, a gas-guzzling, air-polluting car is pretty much the only way to see it.
Opinion: Texas propositions
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Texas · Source: Houston Chronicle
Voters should approve state propositions 1-16 on the Nov. 6 ballot
Energy firm to pay $15,000 fine for elections violation
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: Los Angeles Times
An energy company has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to a state ethics watchdog agency for failing to properly disclose spending $5 million to defeat a ballot measure last year that would have taxed crude-oil production in California, officials said Friday.
Baerwaldt putting money where his mouth is in Prop. 1 debate
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: The Seattle Times
Once an enthusiastic supporter of Seattle's monorail plan, Mark Baerwaldt is crusading again. But this time he's opposing Proposition 1, the roads-and-rails ballot measure.
Kansas Citians to vote on continuing a sales tax for capital improvements
Category: Taxes · State: Missouri · Source: The Kansas City Star
Kansas City voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to continue a tax that many city leaders consider crucial to improving neighborhood infrastructure.
Stances on Hwy. 1 widening changing
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
After a new survey earlier this month showed county residents want a "balanced" approach to transportation, discussion has returned to the same old fight: whether to widen Highway 1.
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