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California state lawmakers have proposed more taxes and fees in the first six months of the 2017-18 legislative session than in the entire previous two-year session, the nonpartisan California Tax Foundation reported today.

If every tax and fee increase were enacted, the burden on California taxpayers would increase more than $370 billion a year, the Foundation noted in its updated Tax Watch report.

California’s State Auditor last week released its updated assessment of high-risk issues that loom over the state, and the failure to keep up with the state’s infrastructure needs made the cut.

A look at California’s property tax 35 years after passage of Proposition 13.

. . . examines who pays taxes, who doesn’t, and how California’s tax system compares to those of other states.

Key trends in employment and earnings