But even paradise has a price. The Senate committee pegged its bill’s cost at $400 billion a year, which is likely conservative since analysts assume utilization rates close to those

The proposal “will cost employers and taxpayers billions of dollars and result in significant loss of jobs in the state,” warned the California Chamber of Commerce. (Eric Boehm in The

A much-publicized bill that would exempt diapers, tampons and other feminine health products from sales taxes – and pay for it with a liquor tax hike – stalled in committee

The bills would have added warning labels to sodas and taxes to hard liquor. The hard liquor tax—$1.20/gallon—would have helped pay the cost of removing another tax, the sales tax

A closely watched proposal to eliminate sales taxes on tampons and diapers, which aimed to recoup the lost revenue by increasing taxes on hard liquor, failed at the Capitol on

A proposal to exempt diapers and feminine hygiene products from California sales taxes was killed in committee Monday after the authors refused to remove a provision that would have paid