CA Proposition Endorsements

Quick guide to the Statewide Propositions: NO on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 37, 38, 40, & 44 and YES on 39, 41, 42, & 43

Prop 1 **NO** This $11.25 Billion in state general obligation bonds will only $1.25 billion allocated to benefit veterans. Bonds are the most expensive way to pay for anything and when used to pay for programs instead of capital projects, it’s a much great burdan on tazpayers that just paying for these programs from the budget.

Prop 2 **NO** Guts state budget spending limit and cancels tax rebates - This does not increase our states rainy day fund, it removes the current voter-imposed spending limit on state politicians and eliminates the requirement that taxpayers receive tax rebates if revenues exceed the spending limit.

Prop 3 **NO** Income tax increase - This income tax was sold as “temporary” to “help the schools” in 2012, extended in 2016, and now the politicians want this tax to be permanent. The biased title says this tax is needed for our schools and health care without accountability for how the money is spent.

Prop 4 **NO** Gives your tax dollars to Politician’s campaigns - Voters wisely passed the Political Reform Act of 1974, prohibiting their tax money from being used to finance political campaigns for elective office! In 2016 the politicians tried to sneak this through the legislation, but the courts threw it out and ruled that voters must decide.

Prop 5 **NO** Weakens citizen's’ right to recall Politicians from office and vote for a replacement - It would eliminate the election of a replacement candidate in recalls of statewide officeholders and state legislators. Offices would be filled by appointment of later special election. If a Governor was recalled, the Lieutenant Governor would become Governor for the remainder of the unexpired term or until a special election, depending on timing. Prop 5 allows the recalled office holder to run in the special election to the seat, which current law prohibits. This measure makes a mokery of the recall process.

Prop 37 **NO** Borrows $25 Billion for costly housing projects - Provides taxpayer funded subsidies to developers without reforming costly mandates that make housing so expensive. Campaign contributors to politicians also get special contracts under Prop 37.

Prop 38 **NO** Public-Private partnership bonds for immunology research - Authorizes $8.4 billion in state obligation bonds for research and therapies related to using the body’s immune system to treat disease. There is no reason that this cost should be borne by California taxpayers! An analysis by CalMatters reveals that the ballot language very likely excludes all but one institute in the entire state: the California Institute for Immunology, whose prominent donor and co-founder in the chief backer of the proposition.

Prop 39 **YES** Voter ID to improve trust in elections - This is a bipartisan solution for Voter ID! 36 states currently require some form of voter ID. It’s especially important to California taxpayers to secure our elections from the potential for fraud, because billions of dollars of tax measures are on the ballot in nearly every election.

Prop 40 **NO** “Billionaire” Tax that is really an “everybody” tax - This would impose a “one time tax” of 5% of “covered assets” valued above $1 billion. However, the measure includes language that allows the Legislature to rewrite the law later, potentially changing the thresholds, the assets that are covered, the percentage to be taken, and the number of times the tax would be levied. This is an entirely new type of tax.

Prop 41 **YES** Audit special taxes - Requires all special taxes include audits on all revenues raised and programs funded through the tax to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse or diversion of the funds by politicians.

Prop 42 **YES** Stop the savings tax - Would prohibit state and local politicians from taxing the value of your savings, checking account, 401k, stock portfolio, and current equity in your home.

Prop 43 **YES ** Local taxpayer protection initiative to Save Prop 13) - This will make it harder for local politicians to raise your taxes by restoring the 2/3 vote requirement on any local tax measures. It also closes loopholes the politicians have created in Prop 13 to violate the property tax caps that voters originally imposed.

Prop 44 **NO** Imposes costly mandates on community health clinics - Trusted healthcare experts warn that Prop 44 would trigger $1.7billion in penalties in the first year alone and force clinics across California to close their doors.

Prop 45 **YES** Reduce housing costs by cutting red tape - Reduces regulation and combats frivolous lawsuits that have increased the cost of housing projects.

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Proposition Endorsements

Quick guide to the Statewide Propositions: NO on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 37, 38, 40, & 44 and YES on 39, 41, 42, & 43

Additional ballot measure information and recommendations from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.