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Bruce James Robert Linley (linley@netcom.com) wrote:

: Is anyone else fed up with sales tax increases? Increases are always guised
: as a "temporary" increase to deal with quake damage or whatever, only to be
: made permanent later.

It's because of Prop 13.  Counties can no longer count on property tax 
increases to cover costs, so they have to do sales tax increases.  So, 
instead of these tax increases going more toward the wealthy (wealthier 
people tend to have more expensive homes, and thus pay more property 
tax), the sales tax is spread evenly.  This allows the rich to get off 
paying less, but getting better services (police will generally respond 
faster to a rich neighborhood than a poor one).

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