Local pols always say they’re in favor of small business–that is, until their insatiable yen for new tax monies reveals their true leanings. National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) comes out in favor of CA’s Taxpayer Protection Act (TPA), contra SJ City Council (save Doan) and Gov. Newsom. Their formal statement below.

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in California gives its official imprimatur to the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act, which seeks to install a desperately needed tax and regulatory clarity on the state. 

“Let me tell you who the best salespeople for this ballot initiative are,” said Tim Taylor, NFIB’s legislative director, “the crowd that turned a $100 billion state budget surplus into a $73 billion deficit in only two years; the crowd that made us one of only two states that still hasn’t paid the federal government back for the loans it took out to shore up its unemployment insurance trust fund; the crowd that has given us the highest gas taxes in the nation. On and on, I could go. 

“If you don’t think this initiative is a real threat to the tax-and-spend powers that be, take note of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 13 that will also be on the ballot, and which cynically seeks to trip up what the Taxpayer Protection Act is striving to achieve,” Taylor said.

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