SUMMARY OF NOVEMBER BALLOT PROPOSITIONS
Democrats push tax increases, Republicans move to protect property rights

A total of 13 propositions have qualified for the November ballot. The first five were placed on the ballot by the Legislature and Governor. The other eight qualified through the initiative process.

Proposition 1A – Transportation Investment Fund: would make it more difficult for the Legislature to suspend Proposition 42.  Result: more money to roads from existing sales tax on gasoline.

Proposition 1B – Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, Port Security Bond Act of 2006.  $19.9 billion bond.  

Proposition 1C – Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006:  $2.85 billion bond for affordable-housing assistance and housing for farmworkers and the homeless.

Proposition 1D – Education Facilities. Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006: a $10.4 billion bond. 

Proposition 1E – Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006:  $4.09 billion bond for levees and flood control systems.

Proposition 83 – Jessica’s Law to increase penalties for violent sexual predators and child molesters, prohibit registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park and require violent offenders to wear a satellite-monitoring device for life.

Proposition 84 – Water Quality, Safety and Supply. Flood Control. Natural Resource Protection Park Improvements: a $5.4 billion bond.   (Note: this is not the “other” bond for levees, etc.  This is separate from Proposition 1E). 

Proposition 85 – Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy.

Proposition 86 – (Another) Tax on Cigarettes.

Proposition 87 – (Because oil isn’t expensive enough) 1.6 percent to 6 percent tax on oil produced in California , depending on the price per barrel.

Proposition 88 – (Because property taxes aren’t high enough) $50 tax on each real property parcel “for education.”   

Proposition 89 – (Perhaps the most ridiculous initiative on the ballot)  Tax increase on banks for corporations, with the money to go to fund the campaigns of politicians who raise a specified number of $5 donations.  (Translation: unions will collect the $5 donations from their members on behalf of Democrat candidates who will then receive a subsidy from the state.) 

Proposition 90 – Protect Our Homes initiative prohibiting state and local government from taking property from private owners for other private purposes.   

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