Republican Sen. Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield is invoking the memory of the man conservative love to idolize -- Ronald Reagan -- as he prepares to vote for a budget package that includes more than $14 billion in new taxes.
"In 1967, when the state faced a similar budget situation, he proposed the largest tax increase in the history of California," says Ashburn in an AP interview. "I know Ronald Reagan meant it when he said 'limited government and no tax increases,' but politics is politics and governing is governing."
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