SAN DIEGO -- Gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner will discuss his proposals for tax cuts and illegal immigration Monday at a meeting of the San Diego County Federation of Republican Women.

Poizner, the state's insurance commissioner, has proposed 10 percent cuts to the state's personal income tax rates, the sales tax rate and corporate tax rate, and a 50 percent cut in the capital gains tax rate to stimulate California's economy.

His campaign estimates the cuts would result in increased economic activity and an inflation-adjusted 1.77 percent increase in state tax revenues the first year after they are enacted, and a 4.94 percent increase the second year.

It's unclear where the Poizner campaign obtained its projected revenue figures.

"My campaign is about cutting taxes across-the-board to bring jobs back to California," Poizner said last Monday in San Jose after filing papers to become a candidate.

Poizner's opponent for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, former eBay Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman, has proposed cutting taxes for job-creating businesses of every size; implementing targeted tax relief to strengthen manufacturing and create and retain high-paying jobs in California; lowering the capital gains tax; expanding research and development tax credits; exempting purchases of manufacturing equipment from state sales tax and establishing tax incentives and credits to train and hire displaced workers.

Whitman "believes we must first implement targeted tax cuts aimed at immediate job creation," her campaign press secretary Sarah Pompei said. "Once that occurs and the economy is up and running and government spending is under control, then she would implement across the board tax cuts."

In his speech at the Bahia Hotel, Poizner will reiterate his pledge to cut government-funded benefits to undocumented aliens and requiring local law enforcement to report the undocumented who are arrested to federal authorities, said Jarrod Agen, his communications director.

Under Special Order 40, the City of Los Angeles has had a long-standing legal prohibition against having the LAPD investigate the legal status of people questioned by its officers.

And critics could argue that Poizner is scapegoating California's immigrant community. But his spokesperson disagrees.

"The next governor must take a hard line on immigration in an effort to turn off the magnets which are seriously adding to our state's budget woes," Agen told City News Service.

Courts have thwarted state efforts against illegal immigration. Proposition 187, the 1994 ballot measure that sought to prohibit people from receiving public benefits other than emergency health care until they proved their legal right to be in the country, was found unconstitutional by a federal judge.

Poizner's proposals, Agen claimed, would withstand judicial review because of a federal law passed in 1996 giving individual states the ability to regulate public benefits as long as it is in accordance with federal law.

"Since Prop 187, at least nine other states have passed similar benefit restriction laws, including our neighboring state of Arizona," Agen said. "With other states already taking action on this issue, California's next Governor should be willing to take on illegal immigration and present common-sense solutions."

Whitman "is 100 percent opposed to amnesty," Pompei said. "She believes we must secure the border, hold employers accountable for hiring legal workers and end sanctuary cities like San Francisco."

Poizner has also said he would order the deployment of the California National Guard and California Highway Patrol to secure the border with Mexico if the federal government failed to do so.