Here Come More Tax Increases In California's Cities

Sacramento The California Supreme Court this week issued a stunning blow to California's taxpayers with a convoluted ruling that lets local governments collude with public-employee unions to raise certain taxes without a supermajority vote. Californians already must deal with a state government that views tax hikes as the solution to every problem. They will soon see the same approach dominate at the municipal level, as well. If conservative groups don't respond with an initiative to overturn the ruling, this could be the beginning of the end of longstanding property-tax protections first enacted with 1978's tax-limiting Proposition 13 and 1996's Proposition