DAVIS SAYS HE'S NOW BACKING CAR-FEE REPEAL INCREASE SEEN AS HINDRANCE IN HIS BATTLE AGAINST RECALL.Byline: Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer Gov. Gray Davis said Tuesday he supported efforts to repeal The Annulment or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law. The revocation of the law can either be done through an express repeal the recent tripling of the car tax. The vehicle license fee was increased recently to help balance the state's $38 billion budget shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. , and notices are going out now - seen as bad timing for Davis in his effort to keep his job. Many of the candidates to replace him from both parties, including Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] , support rolling the fee back. Several legislative Democrats, including Assemblyman as·sem·bly·man n. A man who is a member of a legislative assembly. assemblyman Noun pl -men a member of a legislative assembly Noun 1. Dario Frommer Dario Frommer (born October 22, 1963 in Long Beach, California) was a member of the California State Assembly from 2000 until 2006. He served as Majority Leader from 2004 until 2006. Frommer also served as Chair of the Health Committee. , D-Glendale, are now crafting a plan to roll back the fee and replace it with new taxes on income and cigarettes, only weeks after a budget was passed with the fee increase. Republicans are suspicious of the plan, believing Democrats may raise the tax again after the election. Davis, whose administration increased the fee, claiming provisions of state law automatically triggered the move, said he would support rolling it back and noted that his initial budget plan did not call for increasing the fee. ``When I proposed my budget, I did not want the car tax to go up,'' Davis said. ``I do not think it's fair that ordinary Californians bear the full burden of the budget crisis. And so, I proposed taxes, much like my predecessor did, on the wealthy, cigarette tax, and a sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. .'' ``The Republicans resisted all of those taxes. That caused, in part, the state to run out of money, and when it ran out of money, it could not write a $4 billion check to local government. So the car tax went up automatically, pursuant to the law (former Gov. Pete) Wilson signed in 1998.'' Harrison Sheppard, (213) 978-0390 harrison.sheppard(at)dailynews.com |
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