Rider Blog entry:
http://tinyurl.com/2009CA-Tax-increase
In 2009, 24 states raised their taxes at least 1% to collect $28.6 billion. California’s taxes went up over $12 billion.
Thus last year California — with 12% of the nation’s population — was responsible for about 42% of all the state tax increases in the nation.
This factoid was gleaned from SACRAMENTO BEE columnist Dan Walter’s informative blog.
Excerpts of Walter’s blog entry:
California’s increase in income, sales and auto taxes was the largest in state history, pegged at the time at $12-plus billion and accounted for nearly half [RIDER NOTE: About 42%, to be specific] of the $28.6 billion in new taxes levied by 24 states [in 2009].
The NCSL report . . . found that in the 24 states that did boost their taxes by more than 1 percent, the average was 3.7 percent of the previous year’s tax collections. California’s boost was more than 10 percent.