Protect Local Schools Without Raising Taxes
Yes on Proposition 3
Prop 3 keeps the current tax rates on the wealthiest top 2% with strict accountability to ensure every dollar gets to classrooms, not Sacramento politicians.
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Protect Local Schools Without Raising Taxes
Yes on Proposition 3
Prop 3 keeps the current tax rates on the wealthiest top 2% with strict accountability to ensure every dollar gets to classrooms, not Sacramento politicians.
About Prop 3
Fourteen years ago, California voters approved an income tax increase on the wealthiest 2% to provide needed funding for our public schools.
Proposition 3 extends this policy, with strict accountability to make sure the funding goes to local schools and community colleges, not to the politicians in Sacramento.
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Three Reasons to Vote YES for Prop 3
Extend the Tax on the Wealthiest 2%
Protect our Schools & Healthcare
Vote Yes on Proposition 3
Proposition 3 is NOT a Tax Increase
Prop 3 maintains the income tax rates that the wealthiest Californians have paid for the past 14 years. If those tax rates are allowed to expire, it would give millionaires and billionaires a massive tax cut at the expense of our classrooms, clinics and communities.
Proposition 3 Stops Billions of Dollars in Cuts to Schools
Without Proposition 3, California’s eight million public school and community college students will face billions in cuts every year, including teacher layoffs, overcrowded classrooms, and bigger class sizes.
Proposition 3 Includes Strict Accountability
Prop 3 includes strict accountability to guarantee the money reaches the classroom. Funds go directly to local schools and community colleges. The politicians in Sacramento cannot touch it, redirect it, or spend a single dollar on bureaucracy or administrative overhead.
Proposition 3 Frees Up Billions for Medi-Cal for Children, Seniors and Families.
Without Proposition 3, families could lose access to preventive healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, and the Medi-Cal coverage that millions of Californians rely on could be put at risk.
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The Latest Developments
the sacramento bee
California's Prop. 3 would make a tax on wealthy earners permanent. Here is our choice | Opinion
Proposition 3 would extend a tax on wealthy Californians, but it has received far less attention than Proposition 40, which seeks a one-time tax on state billionaires. Although Proposition 40 is arguably the most controversial of California’s 14 propositions on the November ballot, Proposition 3 has generated comparatively little public debate.
PRESS RELEASE
California Labor Organizations and Frontline Workers Stand Together for Yes on Prop 3
SACRAMENTO, CA – The workers who keep California running are united behind Prop 3. SEIU California, AFSCME California, California Professional Firefighters and the California Federation of Labor Unions, representing more than 2.3 million workers, endorsed Prop 3. Their endorsement came with a warning that failing to pass Prop 3 would lead to a devastating $10 billion deficit in the state budget for schools, health care and emergency response.
San DIego Union Tribune OPINION
Our schools need Prop. 3’s funding to stay permanent
This November, voters face a defining choice about what we value with Proposition 3. We can protect essential, reliable funding for our public schools, or we can hand over a massive, unneeded tax break to millionaires and billionaires.
Our classrooms deserve safety. Our students deserve stability. Our educators deserve the resources to do their jobs. Every child deserves access to high-quality education, regardless of their ZIP code, income, language or background.