The Oakland Tribune, July 25, 2009 by Josh Richman
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_12914491
“It has some flavor of raising taxes without actually raising taxes,” agreed David Gamage, a tax law expert and associate professor at University of California-Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. “It may be the most obvious impact for some taxpayers because you actually see the money coming out of your paycheck, but in the context where there are only bad (state budget) options, I don’t think this is going to strike anybody as the worst option.”