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each of his office behind this bill by giving it the stamp of approval. I think it's a horrendous bill for san Francisco and for the people in my district. If I voted for a bill like this, they would have the right to recall me. I feel

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because it hits hardest at the working class and the poor to benefit the rich and I think that's a very unfair way to have tax reform. And for that reason, I'm strongly opposed to the bill. I support what the democratic senators are doing and I would

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hope that the mayor, upon reflection when he reads some of the things about the bill, when he thoroughly studies the bill's impact in san Francisco, that he would reverse this position. I realized the problems for additional revenues in the city, but I don't think it's proper

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for the government to raise revenue by hitting at the poor people in the working class and those who are least able to afford this burden. I just think that's not the right type of government and that's not the type of government that I would subscribe to

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Reagan must be the only governor in the history of any state that's had an occasion to raise taxes twice during his first term of office, the first year in office, he raised everybody's income taxes. And if you recall the income tax bills went up somewhere three

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or 400% and now his new tax proposal is a $1 billion dollar tax increase for the people of this state. And when you think in terms of a $1 billion tax increase and style it as tax relief, somebody is getting a business because you can't give

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relief while at the same time increasing taxes. That's relatively stupid for anybody to assume that. But the governor is in his sleight of hand method, really doing a great job of making people believe that that's a tax relief bill, when at the same time, it's raising

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taxes by $1 billion in the $1 billion will be gotten from withholding, it will be gotten from a 20% increase in the sales taxes, and it will be gotten from a minor increase in the income taxes by raising the brackets from 10 to 11 to 12

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and 1972 while at the same time, offering serious and good relief to the business community in this state in terms of knocking out the business inventory taxes. And while at the same time, uh offering relief to a few homeowners.