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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Governor Jerry Brown told more than 150 college students today that his tax initiative is a small price to pay for a more stable budget. He compared his tax hike to paying one penny on a 4-dollar sandwich.
At a rally at Sacrament City College today, Governor Brown urged students to pass his November ballot tax measure claiming that Prop 30 would stop years of cuts to community colleges.
Proposition 30 would raise the state sales tax a quarter cent, but draw most of its revenue from an income tax increase on the richest Californians. Its passage would also prevent about 6 billion in cuts to public schools and universities.
The governor said he's not asking a lot from california residents, telling students, "We're asking not too much. This Proposition 30 is not only crucial to you. It's also crucial to us as a state. California is an amazing place."
But critics of the tax measure disagree. David Wolfe, the Legislative Director for Howard Jarvis Tax Association says, "It's not pennies if you're the one million Californians that have been out of work for at least one year. It's not pennies when there's four million people in the sate who are unemployed or underemployed who want a full time job and cannot get it."
The latest polls show Proposition 30 clinging to a narrow lead, but those surveys were taken before a newly financed opposition campaign began airing ads against the measure.
