Podcast: It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like...

December 2, 2011, 12:01 am • Posted by John Myers
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Well, it's beginning to look a lot like election season. And this season, we may be talking an awful lot about taxes.

This week's Capital Notes Podcast takes a look at the vast array of tax increase initiatives now being offered and mulled, and the road ahead for a proposal soon unveiled by Governor Jerry Brown.

I'm joined by Anthony York of the Los Angeles Times and Marisa Lagos of the San Francisco Chronicle, as we talk both the politics of taxes and the politics of the things the taxes may be used to fund -- education, government realignment, and more.

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John Myers is Sacramento Bureau Chief for KQED Public Radio and "The California Report," heard daily on 23 public radio stations across the Golden State.
  • Speech85

    That was a really interesting podcast as much for what was mentioned as for what was hinted at.  Under realignment (including all the ballot measures that address funding for realignment) there are very clear winners.  The winners of course are the County Boards of Supervisors, the schools and the police and fire-fighters.  Whether and to what extent the other local services (health, social services, etc.) get funded will vary by County.  I think it was Marisa who pointed out that in San Francisco County those services will get funding but in Imperial County not so much.