Hi! I have to research, condense, and explain all the California ballot initiatives for my job. Here is a tweet-per-prop thread-guide (finance snips all from ballotpedia):
Prop 1: Borrow $4 billion to build more affordable housing.
DID YOU KNOW: By the state's estimate, we actually have a SURPLUS of housing affordable to high-income people, but massive shortages of housing for everyone else. (The market only tends to build for the top.)
DID YOU KNOW: By the state's estimate, we actually have a SURPLUS of housing affordable to high-income people, but massive shortages of housing for everyone else. (The market only tends to build for the top.)
P2: Allows the state to re-direct some $ earmarked for mental health services to housing for people with mental disorders
WHO'S WHERE: The official no argument comes from *one* local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Statewide NAMI *supports* it.
WHO'S WHERE: The official no argument comes from *one* local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Statewide NAMI *supports* it.
P3: Borrow $8.9b to pay for a bazillion water projects
WHO'S WHERE: Some enviros (most notably Sierra Club CA) oppose it b/c $750m will go toward fixing up 2 canals that the feds own and growers benefit from. Others support because they think the projects funded are net good. 🤷♂️
WHO'S WHERE: Some enviros (most notably Sierra Club CA) oppose it b/c $750m will go toward fixing up 2 canals that the feds own and growers benefit from. Others support because they think the projects funded are net good. 🤷♂️
P4: Borrow $1.5bn in public money for private nonprofit children's hospitals.
WHO'S PAYING: The private nonprofit hospitals that would be eligible for the money.
WHO'S WHERE: There's no organized opposition.
WHO'S PAYING: The private nonprofit hospitals that would be eligible for the money.
WHO'S WHERE: There's no organized opposition.
P5: Lets old people take their low tax rates with them when they buy new homes.
WHAT IT COSTS: $2bn / year, eventually
WHO's PAYING: Realtors
WHAT IT COSTS: $2bn / year, eventually
WHO's PAYING: Realtors
P6: A MAGA hat disguised as serious tax policy
WHAT? Republicans need turnout to hold onto their house seats, so they cooked up a tax repeal even the Chamber of Commerce opposes--they think "repeal the gas tax" is more likely to turn out their base than ... Republican candidates.
WHAT? Republicans need turnout to hold onto their house seats, so they cooked up a tax repeal even the Chamber of Commerce opposes--they think "repeal the gas tax" is more likely to turn out their base than ... Republican candidates.
P7: Daylight Savings Time
WHO CARES:
WHO CARES:
P8: Caps kidney dialysis charges at direct costs plus 15%
WHO'S PAYING: SEIU-UHW, which organizes dialysis workers
WHY? To raise the cap and reap more profits, dialysis companies would have to increase direct costs - probably by hiring more staff, and/or paying them better.
WHO'S PAYING: SEIU-UHW, which organizes dialysis workers
WHY? To raise the cap and reap more profits, dialysis companies would have to increase direct costs - probably by hiring more staff, and/or paying them better.
P10: Lifts state-imposed restrictions on local rent control
OH HEY, I have a whole thread on this:
OH HEY, I have a whole thread on this:
P11: Eases break rules for private-sector ambulances
WHO BENEFITS: Private-sector ambulance companies, plus the insurance companies and local governments they may pass some savings on to
WHO BENEFITS: Private-sector ambulance companies, plus the insurance companies and local governments they may pass some savings on to
P12: Requires more space for animals on factory farms
WHO's WHERE: The spending against this is coming from ag. Strangely, they're on the same side as PETA, who doesn't think it goes far enough.
WHO's WHERE: The spending against this is coming from ag. Strangely, they're on the same side as PETA, who doesn't think it goes far enough.
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