Results from a poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California released Wednesday show that about half of likely voters support Proposition 30.
Fifty two percent of likely voters support the measure while forty percent are opposed and 8 percent remain undecided, according to the poll.
The initiative, crafted by Gov. Jerry Brown, would increase the tax rate on the wealthiest Californians and raise the state sales tax by a quarter percent over the next four years.
If voters reject the initiative at the polls this November, UC Berkeley will incur $50 million in cuts and students could face a 20.3 percent midyear tuition hike.
Only forty five percent of voters said they would support the competing Proposition 38 initiative while forty five percent were opposed and 11 percent were undecided.
Backed by Molly Munger, Proposition 38 would increase taxes on earnings over the next 12 years and use the new revenues for K-12 schools and early childhood education programs.
“Turnout will be an important ingredient in determining the November outcome of the two tax measures since these initiatives have much stronger support among young, Latino, and women voters, and narrow majorities of independent voters are favoring both measures today,” said PPIC President and CEO Mark Baldassare in a statement.
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The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. opposes Prop. 30. “…even the CA School Boards Assoc. says the initiative provides no new funding for schools. None.”
We’ve all been misled by Brown.
Vote Yes on Prop 30, support our children’s education and everyone’s future.
It’s no surprise that a majority of Californians want someone else to pay higher taxes.
vote NO on moonbeam’s tax hikes
Why?
Vote No on Prop 30…..Brown Lies
Bloomberg News: “Most Californians would be surprised to learn that 100 percent of education’s share
of the [Prop 30} tax increase proposed by Governor Jerry Brown will go to pensions instead of classrooms.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/…
Jerry Brown resorts to threats on education and lies about where the money will actually go, to gain support. Californians need to know the money will end up in the general fund, which Sacramento severely mismanages. It will place a burden on Californians, barely struggling to survive, with no real return on their investment.
So the money goes to pensions, which frees up other money in the system to use to actually pay for things that affect the students. Pensions are not something that should be negotiable; if you have to pay for something, you have to pay for it, so if you can cover those costs with some new tax increase then you can stop the money flowing from the classrooms into the pension fund. If this whole pension claim is correct at all.
> So the money goes to pensions, which frees up
> other money in the system
to use to actually
> pay for things that affect the students.
You actually believe that?