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A California Revenue enhancement Increase Initiative (#11-0090, #12-0001) was approved for circulation in California as an initiated ramble amendment. To earn a spot on the state's 2012 ballot, sponsors of the initiative would have had to collect 807,615 signatures.

However, on March 14, 2012, Jerry Brown announced that he had struck a deal with the California Federation of Teachers to merge his tax increase proposal with their "Millionaire'due south Tax". The merged initiative is the California Sales and Income Revenue enhancement Increment Initiative.[ane]

Jerry Brown's original proposal, if it had been approved, would take:

  • Increased the land income tax levied on annual earnings over $250,000 for five years.
  • Increased the land'south sales and utilise taxation by 1/ii cent for iv years.[ii]
  • Allocated 89% of these temporary tax revenues to Chiliad-12 schools, and 11% to community colleges.

In an open letter of the alphabet to California voters when the initiative was showtime filed, Gov. Jerry Brown wrote, "The stark truth is that without new taxation revenues, we volition take no other choice but to make deeper and more damaging cuts. I am going directly to voters because I don't want to go bogged down in partisan gridlock every bit happened this twelvemonth. The stakes are too high."[3] [4]

Competing revenue enhancement initiatives

The Brownish revenue enhancement increment initiative, before information technology merged with the Millionaire's Tax in March 2012, was 1 of several competing revenue enhancement increase measures . The others were:

  • Molly Munger'southward Taxation Increase for Education Initiative
  • The Increased Income Tax for Those Earning Over $one,000,000 Initiative ("Millionaire'south Tax")
  • A Tax on Oil Initiative
  • An effort to collect more Income Taxes from Out-of-State Businesses.

Of these, the Molly Munger proposal and the Millionaire'southward Tax Increase Initiative were most often mentioned as competing with Jerry Brown'southward tax hike proposal. The sense of contest came from the concern, amongst those who mostly support a tax increment, that if there are multiple tax increment proposals on the Nov six, 2012, ballot, they might all neglect. Whereas, these tacticians believed, if only i revenue enhancement increment initiative is on the election, information technology stands a better chance of passing.[5] Strategists accept said:

  • Steve Glazer, who is working for the Jerry Brown tax hike: "When voters are offered choices among competing [revenue enhancement] measures, it depresses the support for each of them. The probable consequence will be all of them declining."[6]
  • Darrell Steinberg, the President Pro Tem of the California State Senate: "The existent trouble is that if you accept multiple measures on the election, y'all dramatically increase the likelihood that they will all neglect. That'due south not an adequate result."[7]
  • Harold Meyerson, vice-chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)[8] and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, says, "...a expect dorsum at state history reveals numerous episodes in which Californians essentially championing the same cause accept put rival measures on the aforementioned ballot, only to create a sea of voter confusion that doomed the proposals on election day."[9]
  • Dan Newman, communications manager for the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Phil Angelides, says, "While any ane or two of these have a fighting hazard in isolation, if it feels like the taxman is looming around every corner, a voter might understandably bar the door and reject everything on the ballot."[3]

Joshua Pechthalt, who supported the Millionaire's Revenue enhancement, said, "We're not concerned that in that location will be multiple [tax increase] measures on the ballot...[voters will] be able to make up one's mind which makes sense for them."[10]

The Recall Long Committee for California had planned to submit a tax increase proposal for California's 2012 ballot but in mid-January 2012, announced that it would defer a proposal until the 2014 ballot and in the meantime would "partner with other organizations by generously supporting ane or more" of the competing tax hike measures.[11] The Brown proposal was considered to be the most likely recipient of their largesse.[12]

Support

Supporters

  • Jerry Brown. In a spoken communication to the California Autonomous Party on February 11, 2012, he contrasted his revenue enhancement hike measure out to several competing tax hike measures, saying, ""We've got to pass a revenue enhancement measure...You'll go your marching orders soon plenty."[5]
  • The California Teachers Association endorsed the proposition on Jan 28, 2012. Dean Vogel, who is the president of the union, contrasted the Brown tax increase proposal to other tax increment proposals that may authorize for the 2012 ballot, saying, "The governor's initiative is the only initiative that provides boosted revenues for our classrooms and closes the state budget deficit, and guarantees local communities will receive funds to pay for the realignment of local health and public safety services that the Legislature approved last yr."[2]
  • The California Medical Association endorsed the tax hike in early on February in terms that contrasted information technology favorably to the other two main have hike proposals that were circulating, maxim information technology "is the only viable, balanced plan on the table to accost the chronic upkeep crisis and protect essential health care services."[13]

Donors

The campaign for Jerry Brown's tax increase initiative had raised $i.7 million every bit of January 31, 2012.[xiv]

Donors included:

Donor Amount
California Hospitals Committee $500,000
American Beverage Association $250,000
Occidental Petroleum $250,000

At the annual state convention of the California Democratic Political party, held in San Diego in February 2012, "Gov. Jerry Dark-brown slipped abroad to a neighboring hotel to host a $25,000-a-plate lunch for a select group of contributors...The fundraising event, which was closed to the media but had almost ii dozen guests, according to some who attended, provided an intimate audition with the governor for lobbyists whose clients had opened their wallets to back Brown's proposed tax-increase initiative."[v]

Opposition

  • Lewis Uhler of the National Tax Limitation Commission said, "Raising taxes at this point is just so across the pale. I just don't meet people buying into the class-warfare stuff. They're not merely trying to increase taxes on high-income families, but also the sales revenue enhancement."[15]
  • California State Senate Republican leader Bob Dutton said, "Clearly, the governor has put tax hikes ahead of job cosmos. Californians have consistently voted down tax-simply proposals."[3]

Text of measure out

Encounter also: Ballot titles, summaries and fiscal statements for California's 2012 ballot propositions

Note: Versions #11-0090 and #12-0001 were given identical ballot titles, election summaries and fiscal impact statements.

Ballot title:

Temporary Taxes to Fund Education. Guaranteed Local Public Condom Funding. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

Official summary:

"Increases personal income tax on annual earnings over $250,000 for five years. Increases sales and use tax by one/2 cent for four years. Allocates temporary revenue enhancement revenues 89 percent to K-12 schools and 11 percent to community colleges. Bars utilise of funds for authoritative costs, but provides local school governing boards discretion to decide, in open meetings and field of study to annual audit, how funds are to be spent. Guarantees funding for public safety services realigned from state to local governments."

Fiscal impact statement:

Note: The fiscal touch argument for a California election initiative authorized for circulation is jointly prepared by the land'due south legislative analyst and its managing director of finance.

"Increased country revenues over the next five fiscal years. Estimates of the acquirement increases vary--for 2012-13, from $iv.8 billion to $half dozen.9 billion; for 2013-14 through 2015-16, from $v.5 billion to $half dozen.nine billion on average each year; and for 2016-17, from $3.1 billion to $3.4 billion. These revenues would be available to (1) pay for the country's schoolhouse and community college funding requirements, as increased by this measure, and (2) address the state'due south budgetary problem by paying for other spending commitments. Limitation on the country'due south power to brand changes to the programs and revenues shifted to local governments in 2011, resulting in a more than stable fiscal state of affairs for local governments."

Polling information

See besides: Polls, 2012 election measures

A Jan 2012 poll conducted past PPIC indicated significant back up for the taxation increase proposal.[xvi] A Field Poll in February 2012 showed that a majority of likely voters continue to support the measure out.[17] An internal poll conducted by Jerry Brown's pollster, Jim Moore, also showed the Jerry Brown Tax Hike Initiative with majority back up in February 2012. However, that same poll indicated that if the Brown initiative appears on the Nov 6, 2012, ballot alongside two other tax hike proposals (the Molly Munger Taxation Hike and the Millionaire'southward Tax), all three will lose.[eighteen] [xix]

Engagement of Poll Pollster In favor Opposed Undecided Number polled
January 10-17, 2012 PPIC 72% 26% 2% 2,002
February 14-18, 2012 Field 58% 36% 6% 1,003
Feb 17-19, 2012 Jim Moore[20] 53% 36% 11% 500
February 17-19, 2012 Jim Moore[21] 43% 52% 5% 500
February 21-28, 2012 PPIC 52% 40% viii% ii,001

Path to the ballot

See too: California signature requirements
  • Jerry Chocolate-brown submitted a letter requesting a ballot title for Version #11-0090 on December 5, 2011.
  • A letter requesting a ballot championship for Version #12-0001 was submitted on January 13, 2012.
  • Ballot titles and election summaries for both versions were issued by California's attorney general's office on January 18, 2012.
  • 807,615 valid signatures were required for qualification purposes.
  • The 150-day circulation deadline for both versions was June xviii, 2012.
  • All the same, in March 2012, the initiative was pulled from circulation by its supporters.

See also

  • California 2012 ballot propositions

External links

  • Letter requesting a ballot title for Initiative 11-0090
  • Letter requesting a ballot championship for Initiative 12-0001

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Business organization Week, "Brown Reaches Deal With Marriage on Tax-Increase Compromise," March 15, 2012
  2. ↑ ii.0 2.1 EdSource, "California Teachers Association endorses Dark-brown tax initiative," Jan 29, 2012
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.one 3.2 Ventura County Star, "Two initiatives filed, ane by Gov. Brown, to raise taxes on the rich," December 5, 2011
  4. ↑ Reuters, "California governor launches tax ballot measure," Dec 5, 2011
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 five.2 Los Angeles Times, "Dueling tax hike measures pushed equally Democrats concord convention," Feb 12, 2012
  6. ↑ San Francisco Examiner, "Tax tussles heading to ballot box," February 16, 2012
  7. ↑ Los Angeles Times, "California Senate leader calls for dent taxation proposals on ballot," February xvi, 2012
  8. ↑ Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) spider web site, "our structure," accessed May 1, 2012
  9. ↑ Los Angeles Times, "California's glut of tax-hike initiatives," December 12, 2011
  10. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, "Tax measures to compete with Gov. Brown's plan," Feb seven, 2012
  11. ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Group of billionaires, political insiders postpones November revenue enhancement initiative," Jan 17, 2012
  12. ↑ Sacramento Bee, "'Think Long Committee for California' backs away from revenue enhancement measure," January 17, 2012
  13. ↑ American Medical Association, "California taxation hike could take pressure level off Medicaid," February ten, 2012
  14. ↑ Mercury News, "Brownish reports $1.vii meg for his tax campaign," January 31, 2012 (expressionless link)
  15. ↑ Orange County Register, "Californians not willing to tax themselves," Jan 30, 2012
  16. ↑ PPIC, "Californians and Their Government," January 2012
  17. ↑ Field Poll, "Both Millionaire's and Governor's Tax Initiatives favored past Majorities. Less Back up for Munger Tax Plan," Feb 24, 2012
  18. ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Poll: Jerry Dark-brown's tax tin laissez passer, but not with rivals on ballot," Feb 22, 2012
  19. ↑ Feb 20, 2012 memo from pollster Jim Moore to Jerry Brown (dead link)
  20. ↑ If just one tax hike measure is on the ballot
  21. ↑ If all iii competing taxation hike measures are on the ballot

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