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Thank You for
Visiting.... Welcome to the Home Page of the IF
YOU ARE A REGULAR VISITOR, PLEASE PRESS YOUR BROWSER'S "RELOAD"
OR "REFRESH" BUTTON ACCT opposes Measure
A, the Contra Costa Community College District's Massive New Bond
Measure, on the June 6, 2006 ballot: Go to our "Vote NO on A!" page. Read about
CCCCD's scandal involving "concurrent enrollment" Some CCCCD Scandals We Know About:
Relentless New Tax Drives by Public Agencies
BART, EBRPD, and other spendthrift public
agencies have reached the tipping point. Their
out-of-control salary and benefit trajectories cannot be sustained -- and
these are already impacting basic services and responsible facility
maintenance rightly expected from those agencies. It's time to call
a halt to extortionate new tax campaigns to fund "needs" which
developed only because the public agencies have misdirected the money
they already receive. New tax revenues would serve only to
reward their bad decisions and make more such problems likely down the
road.
Public-sector corollary to Parkinson's Law:
"Unit costs of public services tend to increase to
"Public
choice theory teaches us that there is an inherent bias toward GREAT
NEWS: The California Teachers Association and Rob Reiner
(aka INTAXICATION (In·tax·i·ca·tion,
in·taks·si·kā·shan):
Euphoria at getting a Taxes have reached
confiscatory, destructive levels -- diminishing the "Americans
spend more money per capita [per person ! ] on taxes ($10,447) Contra Costa Supervisors Are Mortgaging County's Future The Facts About California's Tax Climate [Tax Foundation Report] Public Payroll Explodes --
Compensation Far above Private Sector
-- LA Daily News Public-private pay gap
-- Contra Costa Times, 04-04-04 Leftist
State Senator, Assisting Campaign Donor, Influences Retirement Board
Contra Costa Times, 04-04-04-- "State Sen. Tom Torlakson successfully lobbied Regional Measure 2 Went to Ballot Despite Sponsors' Knowledge of Illegality "Under U.S. law, a highway bridge that receives even one federal dollar cannot use toll money to pay bus drivers, buy ferry fuel or cover any of the costs of transit service."
"Public choice theory teaches us that there is an inherent bias toward CAL-TAX Lists California's 2003 Tax and Fee Attacks on Taxpayers
See
the California
Taxpayers' Association Listing of 2003's tax and fee "We're
already beleaguered with the level of debts we're carrying
now." "California
is a great place to run a small business. All you have to do is
start Grand
Jury Reports on Fiscal Irresponsibility
in Contra Costa Government County
Ignores Retiree Health Costs -- The Financial Tidal Wave (2006)
League
of Women Voters, Promoter of Local Tax Increases, It's
a cozy arrangement. The League of Women Voters signed BART's ACCT
learned earlier in 2002 that the East Bay Regional Park District
has Now,
LWV appears as a signatory to ballot arguments supporting Regional At best, in our considered view,
such payments represent an
unethical
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INFORMATIVE LINKS |
We Changed Our Address This
ACCT website once had a different URL address. We initiated a change to avoid confusion among visitors to that previous address. A
local activist named Brad Senden -- or more specifically, "Political
Designs," one of his companies -- registered a web address similar to
the one we used previously, then posted a crude denunciation of ACCT at
the site. On the other hand, Senden acts through "Political Designs" as a paid campaign consultant, assisting public agencies in passing new tax measures. We wonder: which is it -- objective pollster, or determined campaign agent? Senden was not identified in either of these dual roles in an October 6, 2000 letter to the editor intended to support a push for new, unneeded library taxes -- after Senden had acted as a pollster for the County's Library District, when it geared up for what became Measure L. In the editorial letter, "Dr. J. Bradford Senden" attempted to insult opponents to such taxes as allegedly needing "help making logical debating points and building cogent arguments." No thanks, Dr. Senden; we'll manage somehow on our own. |
Outsourcing of Library Administration Seven years ago, ACCT's
management consultants offered a no-fee, There's a better way than new taxes -- a proven
way -- to provide Riverside County, serving a population slightly
larger than Contra The online record is not complete -- but
several sources help tell "Riverside County Libraries Shelve
Old Ways: County is first in nation "Outsourcing: can it work for you?" (3M Library Systems) "Award-Winning
Library Director Tapped As Vice President for LSSI |
ACCT -- the Alliance of Contra Costa Taxpayers
affirms, From hidden phone surcharges to Bay Bridge tolls
originally Taxes now consume 33.9% of California incomes1 and 50% On average, state and local governments alone consume $3,500 Stung by Prop. 13 in 1978, the tax consumers have resorted And with Prop.
39 having passed, the tax promoters have only
The Alliance of Contra Costa Taxpayers is a group
of affiliated In contrast, we find many recent local tax measures
have cost
ACCT will oppose such excesses. |
1 "A
Surprise for Taxpayers in Some "Low Tax" States: Minus the Federal
Taxes, They're Actually 'High Tax' States" -- from the Tax Foundation.
2 Applying federal income tax bracket at 28%
(and many families are in
39% bracket), Social Security and Medicare taxes at 15.3% (7.65%
by
employer or all personally if self-employed), state income taxes
at 7%
-- and that's before we get to property taxes, sales taxes,
gasoline taxes,
phone taxes, etc., etc.
3 California Taxpayers' Association and Tax Foundation
4 "Taxing
California - 1995-96 State, Local, and Federal Tax Burden:
Rising Cost of Government" (Sept. '99) California Taxpayers'
Association
This website will present the case for rejection
of unreasonable taxes with It is our intention to present the facts about
taxes and their underlying fiscal realities, Please join us in opposing unreasonable taxes Technical Notes:
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