October 2002

ELECTRONIC EDITION

October 2002

Volume 6, No. 8

SUBJECT		ARTICLE
LEGISLATION		Cal-Tax Issues Scorecard on Legislators' Tax Vote, that passed or defeated key tax bills during the 2002 session, and Cal-Tax President Larry McCarthy expresses disappointment that so many legislators disregard or fail to recognize impacts of their votes on the state’s economy.
EDUCATION		Proposition 47: More Classrooms, Better Schools, Without New Taxes. Assembly Member Robert Hertzberg, former speaker of the Assembly and a co-author of the statewide school bond measure, urges approval of the bond for more classrooms and better schools – without new taxes.
EDUCATION		Why Does Cal-Tax Support Prop. 47, the Statewide School Bond? Cal-Tax President Larry McCarthy introduces a Special Report on the ballot measure and reiterates that passage of the bond should not require higher taxes.
STATE GOVERNMENT		Damage Control: Sacramento Begins Shaping a Post-Oracle Tech Agenda. Joe Rodota, CEO of Forward Observer, Inc., applauds moves this summer by Oracle Corporation and the Davis administration, particularly the work of J. Clark Kelso, a law professor who stepped in to help with the state’s technology procurement program. But Rodota wonders if there is a new negative attitude brewing toward outsourcing as he calls on California’s next governor (Davis or Simon) to clarify where the state is going.
TAXES		Who Profits by Far the Most from Cigarettes? Government. Tommy J. Payne of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is loaded with facts and figures as he reports that governments rake in many times the tobacco company’s profit per pack.
		(Editor’s Note: This is a compilation of articles posted during recent weeks on the electronic Cal-Tax Digest – www.caltax.org.)

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