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Tax,
Government

Mar. 30, 2022

Gann limit and gas tax rebate – What’s legal?

Californians suffering from high inflation, especially at the gas pump, would be justifiably angry to learn that state politicians are hoarding a multi-billion-dollar wad of cash, refusing to give any of it back to taxpayers.

Jon Coupal

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Proposition 13, approved by nearly two-thirds of California voters in 1978, was just the opening shot in the modern tax revolt movement. In its wake, voters across the United States began pushing for tax relief and spending limitations, using either the powers of direct democracy or heavy pressure on their respective state legislatures. These efforts achieved a fair amount of success.

These laws known as TELs, or “Tax and Expenditure Limita...

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