If ACA 1 & 13 pass, what seven Capital vices might prey on SJ taxpayers?
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Reform California's Carl DeMaio breaks down a list of tax hikes to expect if November's voters approve two controversial anti-Prop 13 bills: new mileage, healthcare, exit, savings, gas, utility, and local increases. Despite Bay Area voters' resounding support for Prop 13, State legislators—and SJ's City Council—are endorsing ACA 1 & 13's attempts to “gut” its safeguards by lowering the 66% voting threshold.
ACA-13 would specifically make it so the CA Taxpayer Protection Initiative would need 2/3rds vote to pass – not the usual majority vote that the state constitution currently requires.
ACA-1 would gut Prop 13 by lowering certain tax votes from 2/3 to 55%.
“California’s tax-raising politicians are literally freaking out that our California Taxpayer Protection Initiative will pass in 2024, so they are resorting to dirty tricks to increase the number of votes we need to pass it,” DeMaio explains.
In 2020, California’s liberal judges – at the urging of state and local Democrats – gutted the 2/3rds vote requirement for tax hikes that the Prop 13 anti-tax movement imposed in California.
The CA Taxpayer Protection Initiative would not only restore the 2/3rds vote requirement on tax hikes, but would also reverse billions in tax hikes previously imposed and require honest ballot titles on all tax hike measures going forward. The measure also puts an end to “fees” being imposed when they are really taxes – especially on California’s skyrocketing utility bills.
“If CA Democrats pass this law changing the vote threshold, there’s no doubt about it: every single Californian will end up paying higher taxes,” DeMaio warns.
DeMaio points to 7 tax hikes that Californians will likely have to pay if ACA-1 or ACA-13 pass and the California Taxpayer Protection Initiative is blocked in 2024:
Mileage Tax: Politicians will be able to impose their 6-cents per mile tax costing an average of $900 per car per year!
Healthcare Tax: Politicians can proceed forward with a proposal to double California state taxes to fund government-run healthcare – costing average of $16k per household per year
Exit Tax: Politicians will be able to impose a new tax for up to 10 years on residents who move out of California
Savings Tax: Politicians will be able to impose a new tax on your personal savings and investments
Gas Tax: The law passed this year imposing a new tax on oil companies will go into effect without challenge.
Utility Taxes: The crazy proposal to charge you higher utility rates if you earn "too much" will go into effect without challenge. In addition, the $4.5 billion in hidden state taxes on utility bills will continue – and be increased!
Local Tax Hikes: Any local sales or property tax hike would be easier to implement – and Democrats have a long list of tax hikes ready at the local level!
This article originally appeared in Reform California. Read the whole thing here.
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