Summary of Incumbent Assemblyman Roger Niello Tax Increases from 2006-2009

Courtesy of the California Republican Assembly

2009:

AB606: Creates the California Blueberry Commission and authorizes it to levy an assessment (i.e. a tax) on these farmers.

AB1383: Imposes a new tax on hospitals known as a "quality assurance fee" in order to attract federal subsidies for the Medi-Cal program.

AB1422: Imposes a "temporary" new insurance tax to fund the socialist Healthy Families program, which provides taxpayer-subsidized health insurance to middle-class children (many of whom were previously covered by their parents' employers' insurance plans, with no subsidies). This bill was designed to attract federal subsidies.

SB1XXX: This is the disastrous Budget Bill for 2009-10. Predicated on massive tax increases during a recession, this budget did nothing to fix the structural deficit or to attract jobs and economic growth. This bill guaranteed the continuation of the budget crisis.

2008:

AB1879: Cedes Legislative authority to power-hungry bureaucrats to regulate a laundry list of common chemicals in everyday products, with no accountability to voters or consumers

AB2321: (SALES TAX INCREASE) Extends the period for the half-cent sales tax in Los Angeles County from 6 to 30 years, subject to voter approval. Voters will not be given the option of repealing the tax even though the projects they were promised have not been completed.

2006:

AB1369: This is a representative "MOU bill" in which the Legislature ratified a union contract providing for irresponsible salary and benefit increases for state workers, as well as mandatory collection of union dues ("fair share fees") from paychecks.

AB2360: Makes it a crime to sell or lease ultrasound machines to anyone without a license (such as crisis pregnancy centers).

SB1266: Proposition 1B -- the "Empty Public Transit Bond." This is the largest bond in world history at $19.925 billion, only dedicated to 32% highways and roads (including environmental reports and mitigation as "roads").

AB140: Proposition 1E -- the "Flood Bond," a $4.09 billion bond that may do nothing to reduce flood risks because it provides funding for only a few dozen miles of levees out of 2,500 miles of public levees. No cost to those who benefit financially.

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