Stacked sales taxes, stagnant services

August 8, 2025 Santa Clara County leaders keep stacking “just a little more” onto the sales tax rate—now eyeing a countywide health-care tax atop SB 63’s potential 0.5% transit levy. With flat population and a county budget that’s tripled since 2012, residents are paying more for the same potholes and emptier buses & trains. Athan…

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☆ Huge & deceptive transit bailout tax planned for next fall

Special Reports December 17, 2025 Ganbaruby, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons f you thought it was over with the bait-n-switch Measure A, think again. November, 2026 will see SB63 on the ballot–a deceptive measure which aims to hide the bailout of the region’s bankrupt  and unsustainable mass transit systems under the guise of “road repairs.” An…

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Bay Area seniors worry about living to 100

Facing concerns about health, finances and social isolation, older Americans say living longer isn’t better. Read the full story The cash crunch is real. On average, assisted living can cost $6,694 a month, about twice the average monthly rent in the Bay Area. The Pew study found a direct link between financial security and health…

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Your move, right now.

Dear John,  I wanted to share something urgent that affects every American. The chaos and collapse in California, engineered by politicians like Governor Newsom, are not staying put. My team confirms that this failed, expensive, and unsafe model is being pushed on communities across the country. We are in danger of losing the fight to…

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