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  2. California Franchise Tax Board - Wikipedia

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    The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) administers and collects state personal income tax and corporate franchise and income tax of California.It is part of the California Government Operations Agency.

  3. Chinese Americans in the California Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    Chinese miners contributed to state and local tax revenues considerably and also took very little resources from the state. Favorability towards exclusion shifted from being attributed to competition to being financially feasible in 1858 as California gained its economic footing.

  4. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

  5. Mojave, California - Wikipedia

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    Mojave, looking east, from 10,000 feet (3,000 m) The Mojave Air and Space Port as viewed from nearby Highway 58 Mojave (formerly Mohave) [4] is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.

  6. Central California Women's Facility - Wikipedia

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    Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) is a female-only California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison located in Chowchilla, California. [2] It is across the road from Valley State Prison. CCWF is the second largest female correctional facility in the United States, [3] and houses the only State of California death ...

  7. City of Bell scandal - Wikipedia

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    Under California's state tax code, the nearly $3 million overpaid by Bell homeowners should have been redirected to local schools; however, on September 1, 2010, lawmakers approved AB 900 by Assemblyman Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles), which returned $2.9 million in property tax refunds directly to the overcharged city residents. [117]

  8. Read my lips: no new taxes - Wikipedia

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    Taxes were one issue that, in the words of Bush adviser James Pinkerton, "unified the right and didn't antagonize anybody else." [3]: 22 Thus a firm no-new-tax pledge was included in Bush's acceptance speech at the New Orleans convention. The full section of the speech on tax policy was (emphasis added): And I'm the one who will not raise taxes.

  9. Howard Jarvis - Wikipedia

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    Proposition 9 was an effort championed by Jarvis designed to limit income taxes in California. Following a debate with attorney and former assemblyman William T. Bagley on San Francisco television station KPIX Jarvis reportedly commended Bagley for his debate performance and, as Bagley recalls it, stated "You're not like Reiner.