the ability to have an exit strategy to those who have an medallion, people who purchase and the deleon canal built equity. they're not able to drive, it becomes disabled, they can transfer it to another qualified taxi driver. that is a sea change from what we have had up to this point. you have had to deal with individuals coming to you who, in many cases, have been driving 20 years and got an injured or disabled and could not meet the driving requirement, lying, do whatever they can to hold onto the value of the medallion because it helps their rent. moving towards this system,, part of this means that proper enforcement will be done in the industry. those not following the rules, there is no excuse not to follow the driving requirement when you have the ability in the future to sell your medallion. that is a quick update of the industry as a whole, which hardly ever agrees on anything. it has been very supportive of this pilot program and we fully support this going forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner, the president of the national veteran cabs. i would also like to spe

that is one reason i do not oppose the deleon sales -- medallion sales. it seems the only one year ago the taxi regulations consisted of 255 x 8 -- 25 5 by 8 pages, but it is now 28 pages long. most for the first violation, but the third is $250. anyways, they go on. already these fines are being closed on companies for not taking cars in for recall fast enough. the problem is that these are being posed without warning. a $75 fine of a taxi driver, a beginning texas driver, that is all 10 hours of work. the question i have, will you give us a warning before you start imposing penalties for violations and extensive regulations? there are many regulations that deal with filling out bills, if they are there. having the right address for the fair and where we are going, especially paratransit, we get that wrong, finding a transit -- finding an address in san francisco is not always easy. there are innumerable ways. the problem that i have is the concept of -- sorry, fines as a way to balance the budget. fundamentally wrong. it is expecting people to violate t

the driver pulled over but the fugitive, 21-year-old i say yus de layian -- isaiahs deleon eluded policewo hours before they caught him, spending much of that time in 60-degree water. his felony warrants include burglary and drug charges as well as assault with a deadly weapon. that charge stems from a case in san rafael's neighborhood. that's where he is suspected of throwing a bottle and hitting a girl in the case. we've posted the unedited video from news chop of the arrest. you can see it in the video section of ktvu.com. >>> 8:16. oakland police are expanding an investigation into a tragic crime. they want to know if the two people suspected of robbing and killing a virginia man are responsible for other violent crimes. surveillance pictures taken on sunday night show a man and a woman at 19th and webster streets in downtown oakland. they were taken just moments before the killing of 45-year- old jinghong kang of fairfax, virginia. >>> two san mateo residents are headed to jail following the plea deal of the burglary of a sonoma home the day after the family died in a car crash. mic

california has a somewhat different composition of our revenues than many states. 13, deleon marked a1978 law that capped property-tax is, ltd. the reassessment of properties for tax purposes. with many respects, we're the mirror image of the nation. new jersey and other states typically finance most of the local level through property taxes. here in california most of the money ffor the local school comes out of the local budget. we are overall a very modest tax state. and we have a relatively progressive tax system to our income tax. high income californians typically pay more overall. however, it is actually low to middle income californians that paid a larger share of their income. host: next is texas. this is a caller named carl on the republican line. and caller: good job c-span. i really appreciate it. i have a suggestion on the way california can cut spending. i do not think anybody will ever do it. i think it is a good idea. you would roughly divide california into never thenorthen california and southern california, and have northern california delegates 44 spending cuts and