Friday, March 8, 2013

South-Central Voters Went 60-100 Percent in Favor of Failed Los Angeles Sales Tax Hike on Tuesday's Ballot

It was an extremely low-turnout election, but looking at the map of Tuesday's voting demographics, the communities of South-Central Los Angeles sure aren't defying Mitt Romney-style stereotypes of governmental dependency. Here's the report at the Times, "More cuts in services seen as L.A. voters reject tax hike."
The failure to win a half-cent increase in the sales tax, to 9.5%, sets the stage for what could be an impassioned debate at City Hall and on the campaign trail about the proper workforce size and spending priorities of the nation's second-largest city.
Well, read the whole thing. The sky-is-falling campaign pitches turned out to be overblown. Amazing how the big government types never see a tax increase they can't support, especially the union hacks.

Los Angeles Sales Tax

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