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The Real Issue:
Waste, Fraud, and Out-of-Control Spending

Politicians wasted California’s $100 billion surplus while homelessness exploded, schools stagnated, and roads deteriorated. Key examples include:

$24B
Spent on homelessness – no tracking of results and the crisis worsened.
$31B
Lost to unemployment insurance fraud during COVID.
$1.2B
On a secretive new Capitol office building - double its original budget.
$400M
In overruns on the state’s two-decade FI$CAL accounting project.
$450M
On a failed Next Generation 9-1-1 emergency response system – delayed to 2030.

Rather than addressing the real issue — out of control spending —
politicians would rather raise taxes.

That’s why they proposed more than $16 billion in higher taxes in 2025 alone. 
Higher Income Taxes
$460 million

Politicians proposed raising income taxes on Californians and job creators by $460 million

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Higher Sales Taxes
$605 million

Politicians proposed raising sales taxes and other taxes on goods and services we buy by $605 million

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Higher Corporate Taxes
$13.6 billion

Politicians proposed raising taxes on businesses and “hidden” costs buried in essential licenses and permits by $13.6 billion

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Taxes on Digital Advertisements
$1.5 billion

Politicians even proposed a new $1.5 billion tax on digital ads

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Higher Taxes on the Miles You Drive

Politicians have pilot-tested a new tax on drivers for each mile they travel, looking to add even more taxes on top of the nation’s highest gas tax. They even created a new tax based on the number of Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tied to new housing and apartment construction, adding as much as $324,000 to each new housing unit

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Sacramento politicians aren’t just trying to raise state taxes—they have refused to close a loophole that special interests routinely exploit to raise local property taxes.

Higher Property Taxes
$1.3 billion

Special interests have exploited a legal loophole to pass $1.3 billion in higher property taxes in communities across the state

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“Politicians refuse to live within their means, choosing instead to hike taxes on Californians again and again. The state is more expensive than ever, and California is facing a budget deficit despite taxpayers paying $50 billion more in taxes than they did five years ago. The Legislature should be able to easily balance the budget – without new taxes.”

-Robert Gutierrez, California Taxpayers Association

Everyone Pays for Higher Taxes

Any new tax – even those claiming to target only the wealthy – will backfire on all taxpayers and businesses.

Harms California's Innovators

Our economy relies on innovation. Driving job creators, entrepreneurs and businesses out of state will kill the jobs that power the state’s economy.

Makes Long-Term Budget Problems Even Worse

The state relies on the top 1% for nearly 40% of state revenue – losing them creates massive budget holes.

Slippery Slope to Tax Middle Class

When revenue falls short, middle-class families face higher taxes on income, retirement funds, and small businesses.

Public Investment Fund Losses

Driving innovators out of California and forcing them to divest their assets risks massive losses for public pensions like CalPERS and CalSTRS from stock market turmoil.
The Solution:
Fix Spending First – No New Taxes

Demand real accountability before any more taxes.

Urge Governor Newsom and the Legislature to pledge “No New State Taxes” until they end the waste, fraud, and out-of-control spending that is failing to deliver results for taxpayers.

“In the seven budgets Newsom has signed, beginning with 2019-20, and the eighth one he has proposed, revenues have increased by 60%, mostly from taxes that tapped into a 48% increase in Californians’ personal income during the period. Total spending, however, jumped 72%, from $203 billion to $349 billion.”

– Dan Walters, CalMatters

Stop Higher State Taxes Now

Join our non-partisan coalition to demand fiscal responsibility – not more taxes on hardworking Californians.

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Higher Income Taxes

Politicians proposed raising income taxes on Californians and job creators by $460 million

  • $460 million (AB 1428): Personal and business income tax increase

Higher Sales Taxes

Politicians proposed raising sales taxes and other taxes on goods and services we buy by $605 million

  • $333 million (SB 63): Bay Area Sales Tax
  • $75 million (AB 1237): Ticket tax
  • $100 million (AB 1532): Surcharge on deaf telecommunications program
  • $70 million (SB 333): San Luis Obispo Transaction and use tax 
  • $25.2 million (AB 761): Monterey Transactions and use tax 
  • $1.8 million (AB 330): Utility tax on phones

Higher Corporate Taxes

Politicians proposed raising taxes on businesses as well as additional “hidden” costs buried in essential licenses and permits by $13.6 billion

  • $10 billion (AB 1243 and SB 684): Retroactive emissions liability
  • $3.5 billion: (SB 573): Corporation tax on employee compensation
  • $40 million (AB 1206): Home builders fees
  • $5.8 million: (AB 1502): Fees on veterinary assistant permit
  • $4.25 million (AB 342): Fees for late-night alcohol
  • $3.6 million (AB 973): Fees on plastic manufacturers
  • $3.2 million (SB 439): Fees on health care service plans
  • $2 million (AB 482): Increase levy on table grapes
  • $2 million (SB 41): Fees on pharmacy benefit managers
  • $1.65 million (AB 925): Fees for mobile home inspections

Taxes on Digital Advertisements

Politicians even proposed a new $1.5 billion tax on digital ads

  • $1.5 billion (AB 796): Digital advertising tax

Higher Taxes on the Miles You Drive

Politicians are studying new ways to tax drivers for each mile they drive and are
already taxing the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) for new housing construction

  • $324,000 on each new housing unit (AB 130): Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax on new home and apartment construction
  • Per Mile Road “Fee” (SB 339): Pilot program to study a future road charge program that would tax drivers per mile driven

Higher Property Taxes

Special interests have exploited a legal loophole to pass $1.3 billion in higher property taxes in communities across the state*

  • Cambria Healthcare District, Measure AA-06
  • Town of Ross, Measure D
  • City of Alameda, Measure P
  • City & County of San Francisco, Measure N
  • Twain Harte Community Services District, Parcel Tax, 2011
  • City of Emeryville, Measure V
  • Rodeo-Hercules Fire District, Parcel Tax, 2014
  • City & County of San Francisco, Measure W
  • City of Oakland, Measure X
  • City of Richmond, Measure H
  • City of Oakland, Measure AA
  • San Francisco Unified School District, Proposition G
  • City of Hayward, Measure T
  • City of Union City, Measure EE
  • City of El Cerrito, Measure V
  • City & County of San Francisco, Proposition I
  • City of Albany, Measure CC
  • City of San Leandro, Measure VV
  • City of San Jose, Measure E
  • City of Culver City, Measure RE
  • City of Berkeley, Measure M
  • Oakland Zoo, Measure Y
  • Crockett Community Service Dist., Measure L
  • City of Los Angeles, Measure ULA
  • City of Cathedral City, Measure K
  • City & County of San Francisco, Proposition M
  • City of Santa Monica, Measure GS
  • City of Berkeley, Measure W
  • City of Berkeley, Measure FF
  • Los Angeles County, Measure E
  • City of San Rafael, Measure P