The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 5, 1980-Page 11
Californians reject
another Jarvis tax
slashing proposition
in 61-39% landslide

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Califor-
nia's defeat of Howard Jarvis' income
tax-slashing scheme looked more like
truce than surrender yesterday in the
tax revolt that began two years ago
with Proposition 13.
State and local government officials
and educators breathed a little easier
when Proposition 9 was buried by
voters Tuesday in a 61-39 per cent lan-
dslide.-
THE MEASURE would have cut the
income tax in half, costing the state
treasury as much as $4.9 billion in the
budget year that starts July 1. Gov.
Edmund Brown Jr. has proposed spen-
ding $20.8 billion next year.
Jarvis vowed he would be back with
yet another assault on government
spending, this one aimed at state
government pension funds.
"We're goingtto bounce right back,"
he said in Los Angeles.
TYPICAL OF the reaction among
Jarvis foes was that of David Saxon,
president of the University of Califor-
nia.
"In these economically troubled
times, a majority of the voters in
California chose to forego personal gain
in order to uphold the public interest
and to protect the services that are im-
portant to them," Saxon said in a
statement.

Brown, a leader of the opposition to
Proposition 9, said its loss "means the
tax revolt is not mindless.
BUT THERE were other indications
that Californians aren't eager for the
government to spend more money yet.
They crushed a ballot measure sup-
ported by Brown that would have
authorized the state to issue $495
million in bonds to finance new parks
and use of renewable resources.
They also defeated landlord-backed
Proposition 10, which would have
abolished local rent control ordinances,
and Proposition 11, an effort to impose
a 10 per cent surtax on oil company in-
come to help pay for mass transit
projects.
THE JARVIS measure was in trouble
long before voters cast their ballots.
Public opinion polls showed Califor-
nians had reversed themselves, first
favoring it, then not. Pollster Mervyn
Field said, "When the people are con-
cerned or confused they really go on the
'no' side. To feel safe, they vote 'no'."
The measure was rejected in every
one of California's 58 counties.
By about a 3-1 margin, Californians
approved Proposition 5 which places
the state's "shield law" giving news
reporters the right to protect the iden-
tity of sources they use to gather news
in the state constitution.

AP Photo
TAX CUT CRUSADER Howard Jarvis ponders a;reporter's question during
a Tuesday night news conference in Los Angeles. Jarvis' latest effort to cut
California state income taxes, Proposition 9, was soundly defeated at the
polls. The crusader vowed to place new proposals on future ballots.
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