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2006 Press Releases

• November 8,2006: Taxpayers Win!!!

• October 31, 2006: State Audit Finds Misused Tax Dollars in Children's Programs: Cal-Tax Warns of More Threats of Waste and Abuse in Ballot Issues Pending Before California Voters

• October 18, 2006: Cal-Tax Releases 2006 Legislative Voting Record

• October 2, 2006: Cal-Tax: Schwarzenegger Vetoes All Six Major Tax Threat Bills and Signs All Six Good Fiscal Policy Measures

• September 26, 2006: Cal-Tax: Yes on 1A (Transportation Investment); No on 90 (Eminent Domain)

• September 25, 2006: Cal-Tax: Re-Elect Governor Schwarzenegger

• August 29, 2006: Taxpayer Groups Unite to Oppose Tax Increase

• July 24, 2006: Business Community Opposition to City of Richmond's Proposed New Property Tax

• June 20, 2006: Cal-Tax Supports Public Works Bonds; Opposes Housing Bond

• May 23, 2006: Cal-Tax Opposes Library Bond

• May 2, 2006: Cal-Tax: California Economy Produces More Than Any Tax Increase

• March 29, 2006: Cal-Tax Opposed Cigarette Tax Initiative

• January 18, 2006: Cal-Tax Opposes Lathrop Irrigation District's Proposed Retail Electric Service

• January 4, 2006: Cal-Tax: Misused and Abused Tax Dollars - The Best (Worst?) Reports of "Your Tax $$$ (Not) at Work" in 2005

2005 Press Releases

• November 29, 2005: Cal-Tax Releases 2005 Legislative Voting Record

• October 25, 2005: Why Schools Win with Proposition 76

• October 14, 2005: Why Proposition 76 Provides Schools with More Money Next Year

• October 13, 2005: Cal-Tax: Opposition Evaluation of Proposition 76 is Predicated on Huge Tax Increase if the Initiative is Defeated

• September 26, 2005: Cal-Tax Supports Initiatives to Reform Budget Process, Allow Judges to Draw Legislative Districts and Let Public Employees Say How Their Union Political Dues Are Spent

• September 26, 2005: Cal-Tax Urges Yes Vote on Proposition 76 - Budget Reform That Will Increase School Funding

• September 8, 2005: Tax Amnesty Implementation Falters - FTB Declines to Adopt a Definition of "Due and Payable"

• September 7, 2005: Another Sneak Attack on Taxpayers as Part of a 2005-06 Budget Trailer Bill

• July 5, 2005: A Sneak Attack on Taxpayers as Part of a 2005-06 Budget Trailer Bill

• June 13, 2005: Cal-Tax: Special Election is Worthy Investment in Democracy

• June 1, 2005: Stop Hidden Taxes! Business and Taxpayer Groups Warn That Budget Deals Could Hurt Taxpayers

• May 13, 2005: Cal-Tax: This Budget is Good News for Taxpayers

• May 11, 2005: Cal-Tax: Higher Taxes Ill-Advised While Issues of Mismanagement, Poor Performance, and Sloppy Budgeting are Unresolved

• May 9, 2005: Local Government Budgets

• April 20, 2005 Press Release: Cal-Tax: Higher Taxes, Even on Wealthy, Hold Danger of Destabilizing California's Chief Revenue Source

• February 16, 2005: Teresa Casazza Joins Cal-Tax Staff as Vice President and Legislative Director

• February 3, 2005: Cal-Tax: Why Can't Some Elected Officials Just Say No to the Powerful Public Employee Union Lobby?

• January 10, 2005: Cal-Tax: Governor's Budget Requires California to Live Within Its Means Without Higher Taxes; Holds Spending Growth to 4.2% to Keep State on Road to Recovery

• January 3, 2005: Semantic Problem Obfuscates the Budget Debate: Cuts vs. Slobovian Losses

2004 Press Releases

• November 17, 2004: Cal-Tax: Next Year's Budget Can Be Balanced if Spending Growth is Held to 4.2 Percent

• November 8, 2004: Voters Dislike New or Increased Taxes, Rejecting Most Measures on Local Ballots

• November 3, 2004: Cal-Tax: Voters Protect Business Climate; Reject Flawed Initiatives

• October 25, 2004: Voters Face Barrage of State and Local Tax-Hike Measures

• October 12, 2004: Cal-Tax Scores Legislators' Voting Records on Key Tax Bills

• October 4, 2004: Cal-Tax: Proposition 70 Could be Costliest "Bait-and-Switch" Deal in California History

• September 28, 2004: Cal-Tax Announces Positions on November Ballot Propositions

• September 15, 2004: Fraud and Waste

• September 9, 2004: California Taxpayers' Association Opposes Proposition 70

• August 13, 2004: Cal-Tax Praises Stand Against Gut-and-Amend Bills

• August 3, 2004: Cal-Tax President Larry McCarthy's statement on the California Performance Review

• May 19, 2004: California Taxpayers' Association Calls on Phone Tax Campaign to Stop Issuing Fundraising Solicitations Designed to Appear Like State Checks

• May 17, 2004: Recent News of Interest to California Taxpayers

• May 10, 2004: Recent News of Interest to California Taxpayers

• May 5, 2004: Cal-Tax Criticizes Defeat of Competitive Contracting Legislation

• May 3, 2004: Recent News of Interest to California Taxpayers

• April 28, 2004: State Government Reorganization

• April 27, 2004: Cal-Tax Calls on Legislators to Focus on Unbridled Spending, Fraud and Waste, Not Tax Incentives

• April 26, 2004: Cal-Tax Applauds Santa Clara County Supervisors on Limiting Emergency Telephone Taxes

• April 26, 2004: Recent News of Interest to California Taxpayers

• March 2, 2004: Cal-Tax Applauds Passage of Propositions 57-58

• March 2, 2004: Cal-Tax: Votes Against 56 are Votes for a State Budget and Tax Policy that Encourage Bipartisan Consensus

• February 5, 2004: Cal-Tax Honors Sacramento Bee's Deb Kollars for "Paying For Schools" Project

• January 22, 2004: Cal-Tax Issues 2003 Scorecard on High-Priority Tax and Other Public Finance Legislation

• January 9, 2004: Cal-Tax: Gov. Schwarzenegger's Budget Signals End to State's Fiscal Nightmare

• January 6, 2004: Cal-Tax Applauds Governor's No-New-Taxes Plan for Economic Recovery and Attack on Wasteful Spending

2003 Press Releases

• October 28, 2003: Unemployment Insurance Tax Increase

• September 29, 2003 Press Release: Cal-Tax Endorses Schwarzenegger for Governor

• September 5, 2003: Cal-Tax Criticizes Legislature for Plan to Violate Proposition 13 Constitutional Protections Against Taxes Raised Without Two-Thirds Vote

• August 19, 2003: Cal-Tax: Radical Tax Plan Would Damage the California Economy and Kill Jobs

• August 15, 2003: Tax Threats Lurk in Final Four Weeks of Legislative Session

• July 28, 2003: State Budget Myths

• June 30, 2003: ACA 16 (Hancock) Split Roll

• May 14, 2003: Cal-Tax: Borrowing is Poor Substitute for Financial Management

• April 15, 2003: Californians Allied Against Regressive Taxation Announces Unified Opposition to Proposed Diaper Recycling Tax

• March 10, 2003: EDD Foresees $1.8 Billion Tax Hike on California Employers

• January 10, 2003: Cal-Tax: California Needs Economic Stimulus and Financial Management, Not Higher Taxes

• January 9, 2003: Cal-Tax: Sales Tax Increase is a Wrong Move

2002 Press Releases

• October 28, 2002: State and Local Ballot Measures

• September 10, 2002: Cal-Tax Ballot Positions: Support for School Bonds, After School Programs

• May 8, 2002: Split Roll Property Tax will Kill Thousands of California Jobs

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