It is interesting that “taxes on us” get voted down, no matter how small. A few years ago a small but uniformly applied phone tax was voted down (less than a $5 a month) but taxes on the rich passed. Voters only want to tax someone else.
Tax the rich schemes pass in the polls, as the vast majority of Californians think they will never be impacted by tax increases on the rich.
If K-12 school “categorical” programs were deregulated as described in my other post on this topic, it would be equivalent to a tax increase of $1,195 per student ($7.4 billion / 6,190,425 students statewide).
The PPIC poll should have asked “would you prefer relaxing funding mandates that would save $1,195 per student or would you rather pay a parcel tax of about $300 per household per year?”
This “PP” poll is propaganda and it was not disclosed who funded the poll.
In other words the morons who call themselves “voters” here still believe you can pick up a turd by the clean end. It’s o.k. to raise taxes on “some rich guys” to continue to pay the bills, the only problem is that the rich guys are leaving the state in droves. It will be interesting to see what Jerry the Fairy does for his next act. Maybe he will take away the other half of all the state provided cell phones. I just hope that the so-called “evil Republicans” stay together and force the RATS to make the cuts that are needed for our survival.