The unspoken reality of why many cities like Alameda are putting bonds and tax measures on the ballot.

As a student who attends UC Berkeley, I am absolutely dismayed that Berkeley residents are willing to deny so many students the chance to attend this university.

This news is appreciated, especially since standardized testing already has its own fair share of complaints outside of equity. This decision by the CSU will break down another barrier to accessing higher education.

Prop. 13 was created to keep the elderly in the homes. In reality, large corporations are benefiting the most. There is no justification for that.

We badly need funds for education and Measure AA is a start, but we need much more than these local revenue efforts can provide.

We need big businesses, which for decades have benefited from property tax loopholes, to step up and pay their fair share.

By limiting our public university system to only those who can afford it, we’re erasing the diverse voices and perspectives that bring so much value to our campuses.

There really needs to be a change with Prop. 13 in these coming years if we don’t want to backslide, not just with our taxation policies but also with our response to environmental disasters.

The passage of Proposition 15 will lead to the closing of a long-standing tax loophole corporations have used to escape paying their fair share of property taxes in California.

Small businesses face difficulties today, but rent increases aren’t one of them.

California has the opportunity to close this corporate tax loophole…

While these two court cases are big wins for maintaining a truthful election process, we must be sure to research the issues and vote on our own volition rather than what big businesses mislead us into believing.

This loss of revenue has forced our communities to carry the burden by defunding public schools and essential local services such as fire departments, public transit, clean air programs and many more.

Californians already have to pay some of the highest taxes in the country – it’s time for large corporations to share the burden with us.

This kind of budgeting has long been present in this country, and the pandemic has only brought it under focus.

California has the opportunity to close this corporate tax loophole…

I’m tired of temporary solutions that cost us more while the richest continue to sit pretty.

After 41 years of strangled school budgets, the public is finally awakening to the harm done to K-12 students since 1978.

The school board has set one of its four goals as “fiscal responsibility”; they owe it to the children and families of GUSD to explore all options, and that includes the Schools and Communities First Measure.

Homeowners are burdened with so many other taxes to make up for the yawning hole in our budget where steady revenue from large commercial properties should be.

While California has the fifth-largest economy in the world, its per pupil spending is near the bottom of the 50 states.