Backers of initiatives to boost revenue see growing public support - latimes.com

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Backers of initiatives to boost revenue see growing public support

Tax advocates point to recent elections and surveys that suggest voters are receptive to tax hikes for education and programs they deem worthwhile.

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One poll found that 64% of registered voters would be willing to pay higher taxes to boost funding for public schools. (Al Seib, Los Angeles Times / September 13, 2010)

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By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times

November 26, 2011

Reporting from Sacramento—

As various California power players develop an array of tax initiatives to propose for next year's ballot, they are reading the political tea leaves, hoping to discern how receptive voters might be in a sluggish economy.

While the proposals are still in their embryonic stages, deep-pocketed interest groups that could pay for ballot-measure campaigns say they're heartened by recent public opinion poll findings and local elections.

A bipartisan poll conducted for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles Times found that 64% of registered voters would be willing to pay h