Sentences with phrase «tax ballot initiative»

Mr. Komanoff blames environmental and environmental justice advocates for the failure of Washington State's carbon tax ballot initiative, I - 732.

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In another high - profile ballot initiative, residents in Mt. Prospect - based River Trails Elementary District 26 must decide whether to raise their tax rate 13 percent to pay for teachers» salaries and to stave off program cuts.

A statewide initiative on the ballot asks voters to make an exception, and instead direct the tax revenue from marijuana sales toward public education and drug - prevention programs.

A Realtor - backed ballot initiative expanding property tax loopholes for homeowners over 55 could drive turnout among Republican - leaning voters.

Ballot initiatives in three Bay Area localities — San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, CA — could join their neighbor Berkeley in imposing a 1 - cent - per - ounce tax on sugar - sweetened beverages like Coca - Cola and Pepsi.

If the repeal initiative qualifies for the November ballot and gets the majority of votes, any future gas taxes passed by the legislature would also require voter approval.

For a house assessed at $ 300,000 the ballot initiative's success will mean $ 18 extra in taxes next year.

In another health ballot initiative this week, Oregon voters said «no» to a cigarette tax hike to fund health insurance for some 100,000 kids in the state who currently are not covered.

The initiative that benefited from voters casting their ballots in schools was Proposition 301, which proposed a new sales tax to be spent on education.

Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local school district referendums, or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held across the state on Nov. 5.

Voters turned thumbs down on most of the major tax - limitation initiatives on state ballots last week, defying the generally conservative trend of an election that saw historic Republican gains at the federal and state levels.

In Idaho, a Homestead Exemption initiative, which would exempt the first $ 50,000 of assessed value on residences from property tax, was placed on the November ballot by petition.

State is facing a projected $ 1 - billion deficit, with reduced revenues caused by Measure 5, a 1990 state ballot initiative capping property taxes.

When Hollywood director Rob Reiner proposed a ballot initiative (Proposition 82 in 2006) calling for an income tax increase to make preschool universal and free for all of the state's four - year - olds, the governor sided with opponents, who noted that the measure would use precious potential tax revenue to pay for a service that a majority of the state's youngsters already received.

In the 2007 - 08 cycle, NEA gave some $ 17 million to ballot initiative groups in 12 states for a variety of measures related to constitutional conventions, property taxes, income taxes, labor laws, hotel taxes, redistricting, corporate taxes, and vehicle taxes.

A $ 1.2 million donation to Californians Working Together, the group formed to support Prop 30, the tax increase ballot initiative, was the national union's largest single contribution.

MASSACHUSETTS On Thursday, Raise Up Massachusetts submitted over 155,000 signatures in support of a ballot initiative to institute a millionaire's tax to raise funding for K - 12 public schools, higher education and transportation.

Push to raise Utah income tax to help schools moving ahead Ed funding» Our Schools Now plans to raise ballot initiative.

But, the Beholden State teachers unions are trying to get an initiative on the 2016 ballot that would continue the higher income tax through 2030.

A court battle over a campaign for the ballot initiative illustrates the problem: A lawsuit filed in November alleges public money and property were improperly used when posting political signs on campuses about the tax.

Speaking of tight budget situation, it was revealed this week that Governor Jerry Brown will be putting an initiative in next year's ballot that will increase sales and income taxes to generate funds for schools.

Our Schools Now sets public meeting schedule to discuss its ballot initiative to raise taxes for public school funding.

And high - profile business leaders are rallying behind a ballot initiative to raise the income tax to invest a much - needed $ 750 million into our schools.

Jerry Brown's Tax Allies on Proposition 30 Outspent Foes 4 to 1 Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies spent nearly $ 54 million passing Brown's November ballot initiative to raise taxes, about four times the opposition, according to year - end campaign finance reports.

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

Prop 30 was a 2012 ballot initiative that raised income taxes on wealthy individuals for seven years and increased state sales taxes for four years.

«Our Schools Now» officially launched their ballot initiative to raise taxes to better fund Utah's schools.

While the board had hoped a new bond measure - the only funding mechanism for school facilities - might be placed on this November's ballot, more pressing budget matters led Gov. Jerry Brown to propose a tax - increase initiative to save schools from deeper program and personnel cuts.

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * Trigger Cuts Enacted: Reductions to K - 12 Are Less Than Initially Feared * Multiple Tax Initiatives Vying for November 2012 Ballot; Governor's Proposal Polls Well * Stay Tuned During the Holidays: Legislature Back - to - Session on January 4, 2012

In 2006 she co-wrote the citizen's ballot initiative that created First Things First (FTF), which set aside Arizona's tobacco tax monies for children birth to five and created a state agency whose purpose is to ensure all Arizona children start kindergarten prepared to be successful in school and in life.

Cascade's founders helped put an initiative (Measure 11) on Oregon's 1990 General Election ballot which would have given every Oregon K - 12 student a refundable tax credit to exercise full school choice.

New polling shows broad voter support for a 2012 ballot initiative that would tax millionaires to raise money for education as well as public safety and social services, sponsors of the measure - led by the California Federation of Teachers reported Thursday.

An initiative to do that, called a «split - roll tax,» raising an estimated $ 4 billion for K - 12 schools and community colleges, will likely be on the November ballot.

S.B. 272 would require 60 percent approval for any tax initiative placed on a special election ballot.

This launches a ballot initiative to raise taxes to raise per pupil school funding.

Our Schools Now is beginning to collect signatures for a 2018 ballot initiative to raise the personal income tax and the sales tax by about 9 percent each in 2019.

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In Florida a ballot initiative to remove onerous taxes on solar installations passed, while another Trojan Horse ballot attack on the state's solar industry was stopped dead in its tracks.

The nation's first state ballot measure to impose a carbon tax on fossil fuels failed Tuesday on a crowded slate of statewide initiatives in Washington.

And so Carbon WA, as the advocates of I - 732 called themselves, fashioned its ballot initiative around cuts to the state's regressive sales tax.

One possible motivating factor is the big ballot initiative coming next Tuesday, which could remove heavy taxes on third - party residential and C&I solar installations.

A proposed carbon tax also failed recently in a ballot initiative in Washington state, in part because it divided the left — with some liberals wanting to use any revenue to invest in clean energy and other social causes rather than to return it to the public.

What's more, spending the revenue allows you to put spending (which people like) at the top of the ballot initiative, rather than a tax (which people don't like).

The landscape for a ballot initiative in 2018 is defined largely by voter turnout and sentiment towards taxes and climate.

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.

I - 732 is a citizen ballot initiative to fight climate change; to make polluters pay when they damage our air, water and health; and to give that money back to the people in the biggest anti-poverty measure in this state since groceries were made sales tax exempt in 1977.

Vivint's move comes as Florida readies for a ballot initiative backed by the solar industry to reduce taxes on PV systems.

Back in 2010, California's voters passed a ballot initiative that redefined all levies and charges imposed by the state government as «taxes.»

«Our expansion into Florida was not predicated on the outcome of the Measure 4 ballot initiative, however, we do support the expansion of property tax exemptions that encourage solar power generation as it paves the way for our company (and others) to diversify the solar power generation products that we offer,» Vivint Solar EVP and Head of Capital Markets Thomas Plagemann told pv magazine.