California Senate rejects extending state taxes, votes to expand local tax pow
Senate Bill 23 1X, approved on party-line vote, would give county supervisors and school officials the ability to ask voters to increase taxes on a variety of goods and services – including income, sales, alcohol, cigarettes, medicinal marijuana and oil – to fund local services.
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