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Tax burden is an important component in measuring California's competitiveness.
Attracting investment and encouraging businesses to expand and locate in California will nurture a stable, healthy tax base. Policy makers will then have greater budget resources to ensure that education, public safety and public infrastructure needs are met. Reject tax-increase proposals to promote economic prosperity. California is attracting investment and job creation by reducing the state's non-competitive tax burden. A tax-increase retreat in the face of success would be a mistake.