Jesse Choper Questions Legality of Proposed California Tax Plan

The Sacramento Bee, January 6, 2009 by Phillip Reese
http://www.sacbee.com/politics/story/1518727.html

“The question is, ‘What is a tax?'” said Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. “It may be a simple little question, but like most things, it can be more complicated.”