Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

What it says on the issues

Statements that name no bill. Each was placed on one of our lines by reading the quote, and kept only where our quiz questions on that line, answered from the same quote, lean the same way. Each counts like one answer to a quiz question.

• Proceduralismprocedure-as-content / direct

  “Proposition 43 is the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13. It restores Prop. 13’s two-thirds vote requirement to pass local special taxes.”

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• Macroeconomics: Tax Codeless policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

  “In direct opposition to the “wealth tax,” this measure would prohibit any new state tax that taxes the ownership or control of personal property or applies retroactively based on activities or status that existed before the effective date of the new state tax.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Macroeconomics: Tax Codeless policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

  “Proposition 43 is the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13. It restores Prop. 13’s two-thirds vote requirement to pass local special taxes.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Macroeconomics: Tax Codeless policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

  “These “temporary” income tax rate hikes should not be a backdoor method for permanent tax increases.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Macroeconomics: Tax Codeless policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

  “There is no reason that this cost should be borne by California taxpayers.”

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• Government Operations: Tax Administrationless policy activity in Government Operations: Tax Administration

  “In direct opposition to the “wealth tax,” this measure would prohibit any new state tax that taxes the ownership or control of personal property or applies retroactively based on activities or status that existed before the effective date of the new state tax.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Subsidiarity ↔ Centralization (law-making)power at the lowest competent level

  “Proposition 43 is the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13. It restores Prop. 13’s two-thirds vote requirement to pass local special taxes.”

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• Fiscal discipline ↔ Fiscal expansionbalance the budget; debt is a moral hazard

  “Bonds are the most expensive way to pay for anything, and when used to pay for programs instead of capital projects, it’s a much greater burden on taxpayers than just paying for these programs from the budget.”

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• Fiscal discipline ↔ Fiscal expansionbalance the budget; debt is a moral hazard

  “There is no reason that this cost should be borne by California taxpayers.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Taxes on high earnerskeep them where they are, or cut them

  “These “temporary” income tax rate hikes should not be a backdoor method for permanent tax increases.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Taxes on high earnerskeep them where they are, or cut them

  “This is the “wealth tax,” supposedly affecting only billionaires but in fact a threat to every California taxpayer and homeowner.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Wealth tax on billionairesno

  “In direct opposition to the “wealth tax,” this measure would prohibit any new state tax that taxes the ownership or control of personal property or applies retroactively based on activities or status that existed before the effective date of the new state tax.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Permitting reform (NEPA)cut it and build

  “But while HJTA would prefer a full revamp of CEQA, Prop. 45 is a good first step.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• ID to register or voterequire ID or proof of citizenship to register or to vote

  “Proposition 39 is the Voter ID initiative.”

  Published by the organizationOpen the record

• Billionaire and tech-donor influenceordinary politics

  “Taxpayers should not have to pay the campaign expenses of candidates running for office or incumbents running for re-election.”

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• Conditions on agency fundingno money until the agency passes a clean audit

  “It’s a good idea to find out where the existing funds are going before voters are asked to approve higher taxes for the same programs.”

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