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Proposed State Assembly Constitutional Amendment lowers the voting threshold for raising taxes
Please sign the petition against the proposed State Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA-1), introduced by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (Democrat - Yolo County).
This amendment allows special taxes and bonds for housing and infrastructure to pass with only a 55% majority. Currently the voting threshold is two-thirds vote, as mandated by Proposition 13.
ACA-1 is currently awaiting a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
CLICK HERE to help prevent it from moving forward!
The link to the petition is below. Your address information copies your local legislators and the Governor when you hit 'send'.:
CLICK HERE to take action: http://action.fightforprop13.org/
For more information about the amendment (ACA-1) by Howard Jarvis, please click the below link:
https://www.hjta.org/legislation/major-threats-to-prop-13-and-homeowners/
Excerpt from the Howard Jarvis Website About Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 (ACA-1):
"This
amendment makes it easier to raise property taxes
to pay for any type of government project. It
lowers the vote threshold from the current
two-thirds vote — as mandated by Proposition 13 —
to just 55% for a new or higher special tax to
fund “infrastructure” or “affordable housing.”
Under this bill, the definition of a special tax
includes sales and parcel tax increases, both of
which are very regressive. California has the
highest sales tax in the nation, and parcel taxes
add hundreds of dollars of new taxes to the
one-percent tax rate property owners already pay
under Proposition 13.
"ACA 1 also lowers the vote threshold from
two-thirds to 55% to approve bonds, as has already
been done for local school bonds (by Proposition
39 in 2000). While all voters are able to vote on
this debt, only property owners pay it. Lowering
the threshold for local school bonds has added
billions of dollars of new debt on property tax
bills since 2000. Considering that this debt is
often on property tax bills for at least 30 years,
maintaining a higher voter approval threshold is
crucial to protecting current and future
taxpayers.
"ACA 1 also does nothing to address California’s
affordable housing crisis. Right now, one-third of
renters spend half of their take-home pay on rent,
only 30 percent of Californians can afford a
median-priced home, and only 53 percent of
Californians are homeowners statewide, well below
the national average. Adding hundreds of dollars a
year to individual property tax bills won’t make
home ownership more affordable."
Thank you in advance for taking action.
Together
we can make a difference!