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EDITORIAL: Golden State Taxes 

Supporters of the repeal have no money from big tobacco companies, who are AWOL after enduring Mr. Reiner's tirades against them ("They're out there to kill kids"). . . The prospects for Mr. Roscoe's repeal of the tobacco tax are dimmer, given it's being greatly outspent. California voters are likely to retain the status quo on taxes, which given the state's current tax-happy liberal legislature, will count as a political signal for it not to push hard to make a fat state government even fatter.

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