Column: Big business pushes another California tax rebellion to line its own pockets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : They're the major sponsors listed by Californians for Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability, the campaign committee, according to public filings.
45% : That's an underhanded way of discouraging the passage of increases in sales and use taxes: Many municipalities provide for such nonbinding measures so voters can get a say on how they want their money used.
45% : Taxes and fees are imposed by voters, either directly at the ballot box or through the election of community leaders who can be voted out of office.
41% : The initiative's general goal is to make it harder for local governments to impose or raise taxes and fees.
40% : That's because the measure goes beyond what people normally think of as "taxes," and would apply to fees and charges imposed by local governments for the use of municipal property or for contract services by businesses such as waste haulers, cable companies and utilities.

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