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Court of Appeal rejects millionaires’ challenge to income tax

Title: Court of Appeal rejects millionaires’ challenge to income tax
Date: Thursday, 15 October 2009
Publisher: Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Author: Steven M. Ellis
Main source: metnews.com

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A ballot initiative imposing a tax on millionaires to fund mental health services did not violate equal protection, this district’s Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Reasoning that taxpayers earning more than $1 million annually do not comprise a “suspect class” requiring strict scrutiny analysis, Div. Two rejected a challenge to Proposition 63 by two La Canada Scientologists. Proposition 63 was passed in 2004 and expanded funding for mental health services for all Californians by imposing an additional tax of 1 percent ... [Read the rest at metnews.com]