Make your voice heard!

You can make a huge difference in protecting Propositions 13 and 218 by contacting your Assembly and State Senate representatives yourself.

Every year, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association battles with tax-and-spenders at the State Capitol in order to protect taxpayers' rights. But it really gets their attention when their own constituents contact them.  Read more >>

In perhaps one of the most brazen political moves in California history, Democrat leadership last week unveiled a budget proposal that would shred the California Constitution by raising billions of new taxes without the required two-thirds vote.

The tax hikes in the proposal would include a 2.5% surcharge on anyone paying personal income tax, an additional three quarters of one percent sales tax, an oil severance tax and replacement of current taxes on gas with even higher "fees."  Read more >>

In 2004, voters narrowly approved Proposition 63, the Mental Heath
Services Act (MHSA), which imposed an additional 1% tax on personal
income above $1 million. The funds generated from this
"millionaire's tax" were intended to expand county mental health
programs. Taxpayer and business groups opposed the measure for a
couple of obvious reasons. First, California is already a high tax,
high spending state that didn't need any more revenue. Second, as we
predicted, Prop 63 would exacerbate California's income tax
volatility.  Read more >>

If Abraham Lincoln were delivering his Gettysburg Address today, he
might feel compelled to conclude, "... that government for the
government shall not perish from this earth." He was "Honest Abe"
after all.

Let's take a look at how Sacramento really operates.

Those in power in the Capitol -- as well as many local politicians
-- make skillful use of those who rely on government services to
advance their spending agenda. They use children, the disabled, the
elderly, and others who appear vulnerable, to justify increasing  Read more >>

In this season of thanksgiving, please don't blame taxpayers if they are distracted by the injuries being perpetrated against them by our political class.

California ranks 6th nationally in tax burden, but taxpayers are being assaulted by brain dead state and local politicians, who won't be happy until we are number one. Unemployment is at 8.2 percent and rising, housing foreclosures are at a record level, and the economy, which is bad for most of the rest of the country, is even worse in our state.  Read more >>