The Culver City Democratic Club will host state Sen. Holly Mitchell at its monthly General Meeting on Wednesday evening.
The 7 o’clock gathering, as usual, will be in the Rotunda Room of the Vets Auditorium.
Sen. Mitchell will be discussing the Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, a bill she co-wrote with Sen. Loni Hancock, which addresses reforming Prop, 13,
A Q & A session will follow afterwards.
All interested persons are welcome.
Sen. Mitchell chairs the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services.
She belongs to the Senate’s leadership as a member of the Rules Committee, and also serves on the Health, Insurance and Labor Committees.
She founded and chairs the Senate Select Committee on Women and Inequality, belongs to the Select Committees on Children with Special Needs and on Biliteracy and Dual Immersion Programs, and is a member of the Legislative Black Caucus.
Mr. Murray may be contacted at stephen@sunstruction.com
Regarding State Senator Holly Mitchell’s suggestion to change Proposition 13 to raise property taxes on businesses in
California, I have a two word reply. One is a verb and the other a pronoun.
Until 1966 the California State Legislature was part time. We had a thriving economy. Today, California is considered the
4th worst state in the Union to do business in.
Politicians love taxes. Raise taxes and get a pay raise.
I couldn’t agree more. Our politicians have a spending problem. The State does not have a revenue problem!
If you want to change this State, you will need to elect people who will stop taking everything from us by calling it taxes and fees, and funding every special interest desire thrown their way.
Ms. Chabola,
Are you suggesting that our public schools and hospitals, just to state two examples, are adequately funded?
Or roads and parks and state infrastructure, to name a few more examples?
Dear Claudia and Patrick;
Are you suggesting that raising taxes on local businesses will benefit public schools, hospitals roads and parks?
What happens when they leave the state and go somewhere where taxes are lower? Atlanta, Georgia is currently
enticing motion picture and television companies to move there from Hollywierd with lower taxes. and other enticements.
Ross Hawkins
“Are you suggesting that raising taxes on local businesses will benefit public schools, hospitals roads and parks?”
I can’t speak for Claudia, but yes, that’s what *I’m* saying. Prop 13 was designed to prevent California retirees from being taxed out of their homes. It was never designed to be a perpetual tax-break to big box retailers, warehouses, shopping malls, etc. That’s not how it was sold. Meanwhile, California’s per-student spending on public schools– once near the very top of the nation– has dwindled to near the bottom. The trend is similar with our universities and public infrastructure.
Can I say bullet train from no where to no where?
Can I say legislators that get paid to be in the city they “work” in?
Can I say lifetime pensions for 1 term in the legislature?
Can I say a state budget item of $12,000 per student for K-12 of which less than $7,000 gets to our local school district?
I can easily add even more…….and there are HUNDREDS more.