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<text id=90TT2135>
<title>
Aug. 13, 1990: Why Governors Are Squawking
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 33
Why Governors Are Squawking
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<p>NEW JERSEY
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<p> Raised state income and sales taxes $2.8 billion
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<p> Democratic Governor Jim Florio already has a taxpayer revolt
on his hands. More than 500,000 voters have signed a petition
calling for a rollback of the hikes imposed in June, and
IMPEACH FLORIO bumper stickers are sprouting. Limiting federal
deductions for state levies to $10,000 a year would hit more
than 48,000 residents with an average $5,400 in additional
taxes and could further undermine Florio's progressive tax
reforms.
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<p>CALIFORNIA
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<p> Adopted a budget-balancing plan that includes $843 million
in new taxes
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<p> Late last month Republican Governor George Deukmejian and
the Democratic-controlled legislature reached a compromise that
balances the state's $55 billion budget by reducing social
spending $2.3 billion. Limiting state and local tax deductions
to $10,000 would affect only 224,000 people, most of whom earn
more than $200,000. But it could derail a movement by
Democratic legislators to raise $2 billion by increasing the top
income tax rate.
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<p>MASSACHUSETTS
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<p> Passed a $1.2 billion increase in state sales taxes
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<p> Only a week after Governor Michael Dukakis signed a law
extending the 5% sales tax to 594 service industries,
legislators tried to rescind it. To make up for a resulting
shortfall of over $250 million in the $13.4 billion budget, a
4% cut in most government services was put into effect.
Although only 1.5% of taxpayers would be affected by limiting
federal deductions to $10,000, it would devastate a state
struggling with its largest tax hike ever.
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