Speaker 1: In California's mid term twenty twenty six election, voters are
Speaker 1: going to be asked to vote on three ballot propositions
Speaker 1: Prop forty one, forty two, and forty three. I call
Speaker 1: them the taxpayer Protection Trio because these three measures will
Speaker 1: make it harder for state and local politicians to raise
Speaker 1: your taxes. Coming up a very simple explainer on these
Speaker 1: three important ballot propositions. I'm Carl Tomio, chairman of Reform
Speaker 1: California and a California state representative, and in this episode
Speaker 1: we're going to cover in simple terms, what do Prop
Speaker 1: forty one, forty two and forty three, What do they
Speaker 1: actually do? And why should you vote yes on what
Speaker 1: I'm calling the taxpayer protection Trio of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six midterm election. Before I get into these three propositions,
Speaker 1: I want to invite you to check out the Reform
Speaker 1: California Plane English Voter Guide online at Election Guide californ
Speaker 1: Election Guide California dot org. On that website, you can
Speaker 1: go and look up the ballot for your county and
Speaker 1: we cover every race on your ballot. We cover all
Speaker 1: the fourteen statewide ballot measures as well as all the
Speaker 1: local measures on your ballot. We flag the hidden tax increases,
Speaker 1: and we give you a plain English description of each
Speaker 1: of the measures to make your voting easier. We also
Speaker 1: cover all the candidate races on your ballot. It's hard
Speaker 1: to find information on judges, school board candidates, city candidates,
Speaker 1: fire district candidates, but we do that homework and we
Speaker 1: only endorse reform minded, common sense, tax fighting candidates for office.
Speaker 1: We have enough left wing liberal lunatics that are running
Speaker 1: the state. We need to have more common sense people
Speaker 1: in office. So check out the Plan English voter guide
Speaker 1: for your area at election guide California dot org. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Prop for forty three. As I mentioned, we
Speaker 1: call these the taxpayer protection Trio, and the three of
Speaker 1: them make it harder for politicians to raise your taxes.
Speaker 1: Lord knows, California already has the highest taxes in the nation,
Speaker 1: the highest gas tax, car tax, income tax, sales tax,
Speaker 1: property taxes, all of our taxes are sky high. The
Speaker 1: problem with California is not that our taxes are too low.
Speaker 1: It's that we are spending way too much money, so
Speaker 1: we need to limit the taxes that people are having
Speaker 1: to pay. Prop forty one starts out by reforming what
Speaker 1: we call special taxes. Your gas tax, the highest gas
Speaker 1: tax in the nation in California, is a special tax.
Speaker 1: Your car tax is a special tax. Politicians like special
Speaker 1: taxes because what they say is we're going to raise taxes,
Speaker 1: but we're going to spend the money on a specific
Speaker 1: special purpose. In other words, they take hostages. They say that, oh,
Speaker 1: raise taxes and we'll give the money to this program. Well,
Speaker 1: we should give the money to that program already, we
Speaker 1: already have enough tax revenue. But voters sometimes get snookerd
Speaker 1: into the hostage taking and say, well, it's for the kids,
Speaker 1: it's for the roads. It's never for those things. Those
Speaker 1: are just the window dressing that they use during the
Speaker 1: election to try to get the tax approved. So Prop
Speaker 1: forty one would say, let's require audits of the special
Speaker 1: taxes by a third party state auditor, independent auditor, and
Speaker 1: that before any tax is put on the ballot for
Speaker 1: a special purpose, that the auditor has to audit the
Speaker 1: special programs and present the findings to the voters before
Speaker 1: they decide whether we should raise taxes and earmarket for
Speaker 1: those programs. This also requires audits of special taxes enacted
Speaker 1: by the state legislature, like the gas tax. It's a
Speaker 1: great idea. We need to vote yes on Prop forty one.
Speaker 1: Prop forty two would stop the savings tax. You might
Speaker 1: know of a wealth tax, or I call it the
Speaker 1: savings tax. This is what the socialists are trying to
Speaker 1: implement on top of the income tax, on top of
Speaker 1: your property taxes, on top of the sales tax, on
Speaker 1: top of the gas tax, on top of all the
Speaker 1: taxes you already pay. If you somehow manage to scrimp
Speaker 1: and save and put a little money into a savings account,
Speaker 1: or if you get a little equity in your home,
Speaker 1: if you get a four to oh one k for
Speaker 1: your retirement, the politicians, the Democrat socialists, want to create
Speaker 1: a wealth tax, or I call it the savings tax.
Speaker 1: Prop forty two would say, no, you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: create a savings tax right now. The state legislature has
Speaker 1: the power to implement a savings tax, a wealth tax,
Speaker 1: and so we don't believe that that is at all sustainable.
Speaker 1: The wealth tax or the savings tax would say, at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, government would take a snapshot
Speaker 1: not just of your income as you file your income taxes,
Speaker 1: they would take a snapshot of what's in your savings account,
Speaker 1: checking account, your four to oh one K, your stock portfolio,
Speaker 1: your home equity, and you'd have to be paying a
Speaker 1: portion of what that value is. Now many of you
Speaker 1: are saying, well, I I might have money in my home,
Speaker 1: but I don't have money to pay a tax on
Speaker 1: that equity. It's not real money because it's equity in
Speaker 1: the home. In order for me to pay, I might
Speaker 1: have to sell my house. Oh, you're catching on. They
Speaker 1: don't mind if you have to sell your house because
Speaker 1: it means it resets the property tax assessment too. We
Speaker 1: need to vote yes on Prop forty two so that
Speaker 1: the politicians cannot enact a savings tax Prop forty three.
Speaker 1: This is called the Local Taxpayer Protection Act or save
Speaker 1: Prop thirteen. Prop forty three would make it harder for
Speaker 1: politicians to raise your taxes by restoring a two thirds
Speaker 1: vote for local tax hikes that are ear marked on
Speaker 1: the ballot. Right now, the politicians have gotten a loophole
Speaker 1: that they've opened up in Prop thirteen to make it
Speaker 1: easier to raise your taxes by a simple majority vote.
Speaker 1: Prop forty three would restore the original Prop thirteen framework
Speaker 1: that would require a two thirds vote for local taxes.
Speaker 1: Right now, the ballot titles are always confusing, and they
Speaker 1: try hiding the tax increases, they try goosing up the language.
Speaker 1: So it's really favorable to con or manipulate voters into
Speaker 1: voting yes on a tax increase. So having a two
Speaker 1: thirds vote is so important because we know the hostage
Speaker 1: taking occurs. We know that politicians are always trying to
Speaker 1: manipulate votes right now. They can easily get to fifty
Speaker 1: percent with those tricks by doing a two thirds By
Speaker 1: restoring the Prop. Thirteen original intent, it makes it harder
Speaker 1: for them to get these tax increases approved. So a
Speaker 1: two thirds vote on local tax increase is very good idea.
Speaker 1: By the way, the ballot title on Prop. Forty three
Speaker 1: is absolutely falseomeess leaning. Here's what it says limits voter's
Speaker 1: ability to raise revenues for local government services. BS doesn't
Speaker 1: limit voter's ability. It strengthens protections for voters by saying
Speaker 1: we need a two thirds vote when you're trying to
Speaker 1: raise their taxes. It empowers voters to ultimately decide whether
Speaker 1: we should have a taxing freeze or not. I'm urging
Speaker 1: you to vote yes on Prop. Forty one, forty two
Speaker 1: or forty three. If you think your taxes are already
Speaker 1: too high, or if you think that politicians should have
Speaker 1: to meet a higher standard before they raise your taxes,
Speaker 1: like this video, subscribe to this channel so more people
Speaker 1: know what Prop. Forty one, forty two, and forty three
Speaker 1: actually do. We need to spread the word because, as
Speaker 1: I just mentioned, Prop forty three has a very falseme
Speaker 1: mist leading and biased ballot title the politicians slapped on it.
Speaker 1: We don't want manipulation in this election. We want clarity. Also,
Speaker 1: share the plain English voter guide from Reform California with
Speaker 1: all of your friends and family. Make sure that they
Speaker 1: also have a simple and easy to understand way to vote.
Speaker 1: Go to election guide California dot org and spread the word.
Speaker 1: Until next time. I'm Karlomio, chairman of a from California
Speaker 1: and at California's state representative. Thanks for watching and I
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