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all those who favor putting the brakes on sacramento’s ability to overspend please raise your hands.
well those sacramento politicians who made a "deal" last month to resolve the budget process with a tax increase that will cost the typical california family over $1100 are offering another deal they hope will appeal to the majority of you.
if taxpayers are wary of any offer of reform coming from those who have behaved so irresponsibly that they have run up a $42 billion deficit their suspicions are justified.
masked behind a weak spending limit – the limit goes up with each and every tax increase – is a two year extension of the massive tax increase that was supposed to expire in two years doubling the damage to california taxpayers.
so anxious is senate leader and number one tax cheerleader darrell steinberg to see that this measure passes he selected a pro-tax colleague sen. loni hancock to draft the official ballot argument against a measure that extends taxes. what’s wrong with this picture?
to select hancock steinberg rejected an argument submitted by anti-tax lawmakers senator bob dutton and assemblyman chuck devore along with the president of the howard jarvis taxpayers association jon coupal (that’s me).
here is what makes this process a farce and a scary one at that. as a result of steinberg’s selection of hancock as the author of the argument against the word "taxes" will not appear anywhere in the official arguments for or against proposition 1a.
the already approved tax increase will cost a typical california family more than $1100 annually.
we will be paying higher sales taxes which hits low income residents the hardest.
we will be paying a higher car tax which hits everyone who must drive to work.
we will be paying higher income taxes which hurt everyone.
we will see a reduction in the tax credit for dependents costing california families $200 per child.
proposition 1a extends all these taxes well into the future in return for meaningless "budget reform." meaningless? yes meaningless. under proposition 1a every time taxes are raised the so-called spending cap can be adjusted upward. where’s the spending discipline in that?
jon coupal president howard jarvis taxpayers association.

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I found 130 "s"s in the provided passage.
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