Middle Class Taxpayers Association

04/17/2012

In California, we need the revenues to build a first-class state, to take care of the neediest and to be competitive globally. There is no fat to cut, no flesh to cut, we’re cut to the bones.

A string of rallies across in San Diego County and across the nation over taxes and government was launched Monday.

04/14/2012

Last year, Citizens for Tax Justice found that 30 major corporations had made billions of dollars in profits while paying no federal income tax between 2008 and 2010. Today, CTJ updated that report to reflect the 2011 tax bill of those 30 companies, and 26 of them have still managed to pay absolutel...

12/08/2011

http://www.ppic.org/main/pressrelease.asp?i=1192

In Wake of Recession, Less Than Half of Californians Live in Middle-Income FamiliesGap Between Those With High and Low Incomes WidensLargest in 30 Years

12/07/2011

Governor Jerry Brown released an open letter to the people of California yesterday, asking voters to approve an initiative to raise taxes.

The governor said the legislature has already made deep cuts in education and social services, and he now proposes closing the state's structural deficit by increasing the sales tax, and boosting income taxes on the top 2 percent of Californians.

Listen to Middle Class Taxpayers discussing the Governor's tax proposals.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/dec/06/ca-governor-wants-voters-approve-initiative-raise-/

12/07/2011

Check out Murtaza on KPBS's Evening Addition-

http://www.kpbs.org/news/evening-edition/

Calls for a change at the Chargers head office, the public weighs in on Wings of Freedom, and San Diego's former city pension board gets stuck with a big legal tab.

10/28/2011

Pat shared her experience and research regarding taxpayer impacts of people on death row at the press conference.

10/13/2011

Explaining the complex hotel tax deal to pay for the Convention Center.

SAN DIEGO -- On Monday the San Diego City Council voted unanimously to amend the Municipal Code, the first step in raising money for the expansion of the convention center.

10/05/2011

The middle is shrinking, and that is the crisis of our economy.

The Insight Center for Community Economic Development released it's 2011 Self-Sufficiency Standard for California showing families need much more than the one-size-fits-all federal poverty rate to make ends meet in counties like San Diego.

09/14/2011

Dr. Baxamusa discusses the shrinking middle class in America on KPBS radio.

More Americans are living in poverty, do the numbers reflect conditions in San Diego?

09/05/2011

When so much income goes to the top, the middle class doesn’t have enough purchasing power to keep the economy going without sinking ever more deeply into debt.

09/02/2011

ClawBack.org has expanded their Subsidy Tracker database and revamped their search functions to make it easier for you to see who is getting what in terms of tax breaks from the government. The website now features records from 40 states and is a great tool to see what a company is doing with your t...

09/02/2011

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday that as union membership declines in the US, so does the number of people able to stay in the middle class.