Tired of temporary solutions

By Grace Elam, San Francisco | 3/12/20

Regarding “Californians’ quiet Super Tuesday tax revolt” (John Diaz, Insight, March 8): This month we had a choice to either raise taxes for schools, or to not. I voted for the former, but most voters would rather pay less than more. The fact is, our schools still desperately need funding. However, we’re all tired of shouldering the tax burden while large corporations have been sitting on the money our schools need for the past 40 years. In the 1970s, Californians voted to freeze corporate property taxes across the state. Every year, corporations pocket billions of dollars while our schools fall apart and individual taxes increase. This is a grim situation, but it doesn’t have to stay this way. Come November, voters have a chance to turn the tax burden onto the largest corporations. That chance is appropriately titled Schools and Communities First. Like the voters who defeated the recent Proposition 13 measure, I’m tired of temporary solutions that cost us more while the richest continue to sit pretty. It’s time to repay our schools without it coming out-of-pocket from us. I’ll be voting for Schools and Communities First, so that corporations are the ones paying more taxes to fund schools, instead of individuals who already pay enough.