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...council vote will mean fare increases ranging from 11.4 per cent for a one-mile trip to 31.3 per cent for a five-mile ride...
...addition, cabbies will be able to charge $14 per hour for waiting time instead of $10 per hour, a 40-per-cent hike...
...making up the difference with high taxes on the businesses that did not make the payoffs. Wolden went to jail and the system was "reformed" by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. and the Democratic California assembly. The result caused all property to be assessed at 25 per cent of valuation, whereas before many businesses had been assessed at up to 50 per cent of valuation. Consequently, the reform set in motion a massive shift from business taxpayers to homeowners. Kuttner writes, "From his cell...the crooked assessor remained far more popular than the well-meaning reformers who helped send...
...losers were a predictable lot: the poor, who now had to pay for many services that used to be free (public recreation and health service, for example), the mentally disabled, and the public schools. Layoffs hit minorities worst (84 per cent of the employees laid off in Oakland were Black of hispanic), but no group was entirely immune, as county governments cut back on maintenance of all public goods. No on benefits from a broken traffic light that goes unrepaired...
Although tuition accounts for only about 7 per cent of the schools' total income. the increase is necessary because income from endowments has grown much more slowly than the rate of inflation, Dogon and Federman said...