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SAN DIEGO LIBERTARIANS DEFEAT SALES TAX
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On March 23 '89 Judge Burkhart of the Riverside County Superior Court
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(due to a change of venue) ruled that the San Diego Cuonty half cent
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"jails" sales tax is invalid. The Judge ruled in favor of the three
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Libertarian Party members who are plaintiffs against the county of San
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Diego and the San Diego County Regional Justice Facility Financing Agency.
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Quoting from the COURT'S INTENDED DECISION, "The court finds from the
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evidence that Proposition 13 has been purposefully circumvented by
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Proposition A and its implementing legislation, and that Agency is a
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special District under Proposition 13. The court finds that . . . the
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(Regional Justice) Agency was founded solely for the purpose of avoiding
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the strictures of Proposition 13."
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This ruling will save the taxpayers of San Diego County an estimated
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$1,6000,000,000 (1.6 billion dollars) in sales tax over the course of the
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next 10 years. Assuming the ruling stands, the tax drops from 7% to 6.5%.
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The three Libertarian Party plaintiffs are Dick Rider (the Chairman of
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the county Libertarian Party), Pat Wright (the past LP county Chair) and LP
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activist Steve Currie. The attorneys for the victorious plaintiffs are
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Louis Katz, Tom Homann, Ellen Geis, Gregory Marshall, Lewis Wenzell,
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Stephen perrello, and Carol Fabian.
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Counsel took up this challenge on a contingency reimbursement basis.
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Many other taxpayers contributed funds to pay the filing and copying costs.
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More funds will be required if the County files an appeal.
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Lead plaintiff Dick Rider commented, "This victory for the victims of
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the politicos' regressive and illegal sales tax also refutes the old canard
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- 'You can't fight city hall' - we did and we won! Now the County Board of
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Supervisors will be forced to do what they should have been doing for the
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past 8 years; providing jails and police with existing taxpayer funds
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"Government's first priority should be to protect individuals from
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those criminals who would use force or fraud against us. It's time for the
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local politicians to recognize this fact and reorder their priorities to
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fund police, courts and jails FIRST before they even CONSIDER other
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services.
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"Furthermore, this citizens' victory calls into question the other 1/2
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cent sales tax for roads and trolleys 'passed' in 1987 using the same
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invalid subterfuge."
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For further information from the plaintiffs, contact Dick Rider at
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619/276-7166.
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