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      <title>Comments On: Jerry Brown Targets the 99 Percent
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Ruby MacDonald]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Since the buzz is that more than one initiative to raise taxes may doom all of them, I would like to know whether CTA and Governor Brown and the supporters of other competing initiatives have attempted to negotiate their cooperation on a single initiative which would be more likely to pass. Does Mr. Gammon or anyone else know about such efforts and/or what can be done to encourage them?
        
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      <![CDATA[The other thing, of course, is that the citizenry had already worked out a perfectly good fix for the regressive sales tax. They bought from Amazon.
        
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          <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/Profile?oid=1164511">Mary Eisenhart</a>]]>
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      <![CDATA[True, but it's not like this is news, and mileage varies as to how excited one should get about the fact. We've been paying astronomical sales taxes all our bleepin' lives here and I don't see that changing, though I do see the good citizens of Livermore getting a bit testy at the suggestion they should forgo their BART station after half a century of paying sales taxes for it, as it were.
        
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      <![CDATA[And the Millionaires Tax moves rates closer to where they were historically. That's useful context, but the point of the column is that sales taxes are regressive.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mary Eisenhart]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well, since what's he's proposing is merely to restore the sales tax to what it was before June of last year, this histrionic response seems a bit much.
        
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          <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/Profile?oid=1164511">Mary Eisenhart</a>]]>
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