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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. it's just amazing what is happening here. it's so sad because it's so easily corrected. but they just don't have the gumption or the power to do it themselves. it's 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 any politician elected to head of state would allow that to happen to their state to the citize...
Essentially. they're not going to make the difficult decisions, so you know, the question is will taxpayers, and we have known that in california, it's the home of proposition 13, and that's where the taxpayers said no to taxes. it's 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. she's easy to love, but not always easy to shop for. we've got some gifts coming up that she won't want to return. ♪
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. >> brown's 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 is worried heap chip away at proposition 13, the measure that limited property tax and created a 2/...
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 doesn't 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. i'm a numbers guy. those numbers are astonishing. 939,000 people voted in this ballot measure. a huge number for missouri. 27...