Our analysis shows the average San Diego household will be impacted by 2-3 of these tax hikes and will end up paying $200-300 more per year in higher cost-of-living.
San Diego county already has one of the highest cost-of-living burdens in the nation and working families are being crushed by recent spikes in inflation.
In San Diego county, there is one county-wide sales tax hike on the ballot, 11 city sales tax hikes, and 23 local property tax hikes – mostly tied to bonds. Just like with Measure G, backers of city-specific sales tax hike measures also make false claims on where the funds from their tax hikes would go. Every city measure has been placed on the ballot claiming the funds will go to specific purposes – with the magic words of “police, fire, 911, road repairs, etc.” being used in almost every measure. Yet none of the city measures contain language legally earmarking the funds for these popular programs.
These bonds are all being sold as improving school facilities – with all kinds of promotional language on improving academic outcomes. Instead of building more facilities during a time of declining student enrollment, school districts should be required to do a comprehensive needs assessment of their existing facilities and right-size – using the proceeds from this process to invest in deferred maintenance and improvement of remaining facilities.
Just who benefits from these discriminatory PLA contracts? School district politicians who receive campaign contributions from union political action committees funded by the dues generated by union-only projects. That’s simply too much for San Diegans who already are struggling with their finances.
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