Ballot Measure W raises the sales tax in San Mateo from 9 percent to 9.5 percent. Sales tax is regressive. It takes a larger percent of income from low-wage earners than high-wage earners. The rate should be kept low. It unfairly burdens young families buying clothes, shoes, etc. for growing children. Buy $10 of school supplies, add 95 cents tax; $100 of school clothes, add $9.50; the clothes washer went kaput, $500 for a new one, add $47.50; the car needs $900 of parts, add $85.50; the car needs replacing, etc. The little things add up.
California first imposed the sales tax in 1933 at 2.5 percent. By the ’80s it was 7.5 percent in San Mateo, and today it is already higher than it ought to be.
There is already a half cent sales tax on transport and it, Measure A, doesn’t expire until 2033! What “benefits" do we see from the existing 1/2 cent sales tax? Significantly more congestion, reduced bus service, empty buses as riders desert the dysfunctional SamTrans system, and now hysterical flyers on future service cuts. But politicians and bureaucrats remain giddily out of touch. Like Supervisor Horsley’s career politician response that your billions has actually helped your commute. You only need to look at the funders of this measure to see where the congestion has been constructed with your money. Facebook Genentech Stanford and Bohannon- they would rather buy the politicians to saddle the the tax payer with fixing their problems. Voting no on Measure W would force a coherent restructuring of Measure A spending.
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There is already a half cent sales tax on transport and it, Measure A, doesn’t expire until 2033! What “benefits" do we see from the existing 1/2 cent sales tax? Significantly more congestion, reduced bus service, empty buses as riders desert the dysfunctional SamTrans system, and now hysterical flyers on future service cuts. But politicians and bureaucrats remain giddily out of touch. Like Supervisor Horsley’s career politician response that your billions has actually helped your commute. You only need to look at the funders of this measure to see where the congestion has been constructed with your money. Facebook Genentech Stanford and Bohannon- they would rather buy the politicians to saddle the the tax payer with fixing their problems. Voting no on Measure W would force a coherent restructuring of Measure A spending.
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