Upcoming May 19th Special Election (my take) …
1A: “16 billion dollar extension of a supposedly “temporary: sales tax increase, the income tax increase, and the car tax increase”
1B: “9.3 billion dollars from 1A so teachers don’t have to take cuts that other state workers inevitably will have to”
1C: “5.0 billion dollar irresponsible loan from the lottery with additional unspecified taxes added to replace losses for education which was the original selling point of the lottery so they had to bribe the teachers to allow the loan”
1D: “0.608 billion dollar raid on the Childrens Services Funding tax on cigarettes
1E: “0.230 billion dollar raid on the Mental Health Services tax on the wealthy
1F: “Let’s throw the people a bone to throw off the scent that this is all about taxes so we don’t have to pass a balanced budget”

1A & 1B are interrelated tax increases the legislators want to pass without the political heat of increasing taxes themselves. 1C is both a raid on a successful program and a tax increase on the poor of ungodly proportions. 1E and 1F are raids on previous propositions that were so successful getting new monies from new sources that the pols can’t keep their hands off of them. 1F is merely a meaningless bone thrown to the taxpayers to take them off the scent that this election is about raising taxes from 20 to 25 billion dollars.

This is basically a taxation plan for the voters; but they don’t want you to realize that; that’s why they’re so devilishly misnamed and complicated.

Vote your conscience,