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Ten Things You Might Not Have Known About Prop 22
- Prop. 22 ensures local control, predictability, and accountability for local tax dollars that are used to provide critical local services like police, fire, parks and recreation, libraries, and transportation. Get the facts on the ballot measure.
- Prop. 22 has more than 4,500 Facebook Fans - Are you one? Join us on Facebook and tell your friends. Help us get to 5,000 fans!
- Prop. 22 would protect nearly $1.8 billion per year in funding for public transportation (not counting local ballot measure sources of transit funding).
- Prop. 22 has the endorsement of over 500 organizations - including business, labor, public safety, transportation and taxpayer advocates from across the state. Visit the coalition website to check out the full list.
- Prop. 22 will end the state's fiscally irresponsible practice of borrowing local government property tax funds.
- Prop. 22 would prohibit the state from redirecting, borrowing or taking the gasoline excise tax (HUTA) allocated to cities and counties for local street and road maintenance and improvements.
- Prop. 22 will help create jobs and improve our ailing economy by preserving a reliable source of funding for transportation and transit improvements.
- Prop. 22 protects taxpayers by keeping tax dollars local where they're more accountable.
- Prop. 22 protects services. News stories throughout the state document how raids of local funding have cut services and harmed communities (read more on the campaign website).
- Prop. 22 will be decided by California voters on Nov. 2 .