With the June 2 primary weeks away, Garry's List has published its Action Voter Guide aggregating endorsements from housing, labor, and civic reform organizations on California ballot measures. The guide comes amid heated fights over competing tax proposals—including Tom Steyer's commercial property tax initiative and SEIU-UHW's billionaire wealth tax—that have sparked dueling claims about billions in potential revenue, inflated figures, and a documented exodus of wealthy residents already reshaping the state's fiscal future.
June 2 is coming up. We're here to empower informed choices.
Tom Steyer renamed a 1978 Democratic law after Donald Trump and called it a plan. The loophole is real. The history, and the math, are not.
SEIU-UHW's asset seizure tax has already cost the state $16.4 billion per year in lost revenue—and it hasn't even passed yet.
Cities skim $300 million a year in fees from affordable housing projects, then wonder why we can't house families.
The Robinhood CEO says he loves this state. That's why his warning should terrify Sacramento.
Even Gavin Newsom admits taxing billionaires will backfire. Europe already proved it. Why won't Sacramento listen?
Inherited wealth wants to destroy builders while protecting their own loopholes. The data exposes the fraud.
Private polls show 80-90% of billionaires already gone or leaving. This isn't about the rich—it's about California's survival.
A quiet amendment to the "Billionaire Tax" would force founders to go bankrupt or surrender control of their companies.
Per capita spending jumped from $4,350 to $12,940 while population grew just 11%. Where did all that money go?