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there is a feeling that some citizens in California are not paying enough. My own view is that as you open the door to new taxation that you encourage and expand and accelerating form of government that is already quite excessive. And given the position of California as

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the number two state with respect to taxes behind new york, I think we should not follow that road. And it's a question of what will come out of the legislature, whether I can get the budget out and whether or not the people will be cooperative. But

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I will tell you, I am going to exert every effort I have to block the effort to increase taxes. I want to evaluate the situation at the time, and uh sometimes proposals will include within them a substitution of one tax for another trade offs. And I

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don't want to totally foreclose the situation. My own belief is that following a limit on the form of taxation that we have is a very salutary approach to keep government check. And I'll try to do the best I can.