California Has Received $6 Billion in Unexpected Tax Revenue

“AB464 is about local control and flexibility,” said the bill’s author Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-San Mateo, on the Assembly floor May 14. “It gives local voters the ability to raise revenue to fund important public services, including transportation, public safety and libraries. This bill is crucial, because if just one city in a county reaches the [2 percent] cap, then the entire county is precluded from having voters raise any additional taxes, hindering key transportation projects or attempts to enhance public safety.

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by Dave Roberts

Why should the State of California be entitled to keep record high tax revenues and then pass the cost of providing services down to local governments without passing the revenues down as well?

If we don’t stop this abuse of taxpayers we will be taxed at record levels, not only by the State, but by the County, by the City and by our local school Districts.

For example- we pay taxes so that the State of California will provide a basic public education to every K- 12 student. However, the State of California’s new Local Control Funding Law is designed to intentionally underfund wealthy suburban school districts. The State withhold $200 million dollars per year from CUSD alone, making CUSD one of the lowest per pupil funded districts in the United States. The State intends to keep that $200 million per year and it will then give the CUSD the ability to tax us again for services that the State of California is Constitutionally obligated to pay for.

This abuse of tax payers has to stop. It is the State’s responsibility to provide a basic education to every student they should not be entitled to pass that cost down to local governments unless we are entitled to keep the tax money we already pay at the local level.

CUSD receives $7,002 per student

California’s current average per pupil spending is $9,501

The current national average of $11,226

No one should have to pay 3 and 4 times for the same service.