David Gamage Laments State Lawmakers’ Rejection of Proposed Tax Reforms

San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2009 by Andrew S. Ross
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/23/BU0E1B7OVH.DTL

“I tried to get them (the Assembly committee) to focus on noncontroversial reforms like making the rainy-day fund more robust,” said David Gamage, a tax and public finance expert at UC Berkeley who advised tax commission members and testified before the committee. “I tried to suggest the baby not get thrown out with bathwater. But it all got lost.”