A taxpayer watchdog group is warning that a new tax on certain property sales in the City of Los Angeles to raise funds for dealing with homelessness will hurt middle-class renters by forcing landlords to charge more.
Proposition 15, a property tax referendum aimed at commercial and industrial real estate, which was backed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, failed narrowly in California, according to projections on Tuesday evening.
A highly effective mailer sent on Tuesday by the “Yes on Proposition 6” gas tax repeal campaign titled “Election Ballot Correction” caused an uproar by the “No” campaign.
A coalition of liberals turned in 860,000 signatures on August 14 for a 2020 vote to end Proposition 13 protections for commercial properties, according to CALmatters.
California’s Secretary of State officially placed the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association’s “Repeal the Gas Tax” initiative on the November statewide ballot.
The latest USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times Poll found that a majority of California registered voters want to repeal the new gas tax increases sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association (HJTA), which has led California’s “Reject The Gas Tax” ballot initiative, delivered 940,000 signatures to Sacramento Tuesday, far above the required 585,407 valid signatures necessary to qualify the gas tax repeal for the November 2018 ballot.
An effort to repeal California’s new gas tax repeal has collected three quarters of the required signatures, and has 30 days to gather the last 200,000 to place an initiative on the November ballot.
A lawsuit against California’s controversial “fire prevention fee” (a.k.a. “fire tax”) will continue, despite being suspended earlier this month.
On Wednesday, a public hearing at the State Capitol considered a proposal for free education for all community college students–a main component of “Democratic Socialist” presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’s campaign.
The California Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday about whether the Democrat-dominated state legislature can put a referendum on the 2016 ballot about the Citizens United ruling.
It would appear that the appetite for increasing the size and scope of state government in Sacramento is insatiable. The Democrats who control all of the levers of power are about to pass the largest state budget in the history of California–but that is not good enough or big enough, it would seem.
The appetite of Democrats in the California legislature for raising more and more taxes is voracious, and seemingly knows no bounds. If you don’t believe me, just keep reading. And when you do, you’ll realize that there is a lot of
