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Despite Prop. 15’s defeat, Californians can still hold big business accountable: Fair tax reform can address the growing inequality in the state, former tech executive Karen Edwards says.

For yourself. >> did i. i wrote the book on it too wealth of states which outlines all of the policies that you just described. its just amazing what is happening here. its so sad because its so easily corrected. but they just dont have the gumption or the power to do it themselves. its really sad. >> charles: i mean, those numbers that jeff flock read off 1600 companies. $76 billion. 275,000 job losses. those are remarkable. >> huge. >> charles: just seems to be, you know, almost criminal that ...

Essentially. theyre not going to make the difficult decisions, so you know, the question is will taxpayers, and we have known that in california, its the home of proposition 13, and thats where the taxpayers said no to taxes. its going to be very interesting to see what happens come november there. >> jamie: we have to watch it and wonder about our own states. brenda, thank you so much. have a great day. >> you, too. >> eric: a lot of us are thinking about mom today. shes easy to love, but not a...

The money to cities and counties so they can assume control of many state services including mental health, foster care and child welfare. >> in that way there will be greater accountability, transparency and, hopefully, citizen participation because government will be closer to the people. >> browns plan to extend taxes will require support from republicans, who have vowed to oppose all taxes, and, it is a politically risky move, too, voters jeektrejected an extensi taxes two years ago and, it ...

Conservative in the fight, karl rove. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> sean: i tried to use this analogy on my radio show today. it is like a shot heard around the world to me. in many ways maybe this analogy doesnt fit, i think it does. it reminds me of the voter revolt in california with proposition 13 and then the conservative ascendancy that followed thereafter. am i reading too much into this? >> no. but this may not be the first harbinger of that change. im a numbers guy. those nu...

Conservative in the fight, karl rove. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> sean: i tried to use this analogy on my radio show today. it is like a shot heard around the world to me. in many ways maybe this analogy doesnt fit, i think it does. it reminds me of the voter revolt in california with proposition 13 and then the conservative ascendancy that followed thereafter. am i reading too much into this? >> no. but this may not be the first harbinger of that change. im a numbers guy. those nu...

But im not running around rocking mom jeans." miss, theres a diaper bag on your of. >> neil: a shocker from the golden state a judge overturned the gay marriage ban in the state. judge napolitano on what this means and what happens now. what do you make of this. >> a federal judge found that the proposition enacted by the people at an election invalidating californias gay marriage law is unconstitutional. as of 5:00 this afternoon eastern, 2:00 this afternoon california time, gay marriage is now...

Plans and just how excessive they are. the fact that theres a living wage there, quote living wage, thats higher than the regular wage and that theres one regulation after another after another thats brought detroit down. at the end of the day, steve, arent those just ideological arguments and isnt this really just about an auto industry that moved overseas? >> it is in part, joe, and youre right to trace the decline of detroit going back a ways. whats interesting about the other bankruptcies th...

That must be having an impact on these state and local budgets, too, right? >> well, i think theres part of that is going on especially in a place like san bernardino, california, that has a poor population. as property values have fallen, they dont have the same amount of money coming in. >> kim, let me ask you. you mention the initiatives in california. there are some other issues. theres a credit analysis who says what were seeing at san bernardino may be a start of a trend. not so much natio...

Down. you cant override federal law but we had almost a million people vote and 71% said we dont want this and we want to kill it. by the way, you talked about st. louis and kansas city. in jackson county, the county that surrounds kansas city. 71% of the voters voted for it. in st. louis county, a democratic county that surrounds st. louis city, 62% voted for it. >> neil: interesting of all, you and i discussed this, they didnt -- the governor -- they said were going to take matters into our ha...