An effort to impose a “voluntary” water tax on residents to pay for safe drinking water projects died in the Legislature on Friday.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said “a piecemeal funding approach” to the problem “won’t work.” .
. . State lawmakers are hesitant to support any new tax increase after Republicans successfully recalled Sen. Josh Newman in June, linking the Fullerton Democrat to the $52 billion gas tax to fund road repairs from 2017.
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