More Politics – San Diego Ballot Measures

[poorgradstudent]

Because I know you all care how I’ll be voting on our glut of measures:

Measure A: No. Sales tax is regressive. Usage fees, gas taxes, property taxes, etc are all better ways to raise money.

Measure B: No. Although we have a housing shortage, Lilac Hills should go through the normal permitting process.

Measure C and D: No and No. I don’t like either plan, and don’t care if the Chargers leave. Let billionaires pay for stadiums themselves.

Measure E: Strong Yes. Stupid Filner.
Measure F: Yes, but I don’t really care
Measure G: Yes, but I barely care.

Measures H and I: Yes and Yes
Measure J: Yes?
Measure K: Yes. Primary voters aren’t a great representation of the overall electorate will.
Measure L: Yes, because it gives the council the option to send the measure sooner.
Measure M: Yes
Measure N: Yes, let’s get some of that sweet weed money flowing into the city coffers! A great opportunity for me to support a new tax I won’t have to pay!

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Measure A: No. Sales tax is regressive. Usage fees, gas taxes, property taxes, etc are all better ways to raise money.
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That was a tough one, but fundamentally I’d rather have better road infrastructure and transportation systems for people who cannot drive than not pay a fraction of a cent sales tax. That our infrastructure is better than similar cities is one of the reasons I like living here, and ultimately pays for itself.

Measure B: No. Although we have a housing shortage, Lilac Hills should go through the normal permitting process.
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Voted no for exact same reason. I am not qualified as a person an hour away who has never been there to be making these decisions. I’ll vote yes if the developer agrees to pay the full cost of upgrading the trolley line being built to go up to UTC to the Del Mar Racetrack. Try again next time with that.

Measure C and D: No and No. I don’t like either plan, and don’t care if the Chargers leave. Let billionaires pay for stadiums themselves.
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Again agree 100%. I would probably vote for a hotel tax increase just to upgrade the convention center to accommodate comic con and other giant conventions.

A new stadium would get us a single Superbowl that would probably be disruptive for residents not in the hospitality industry, but comic con is a boost to our economy every year without any strain on our infrastructure. It gives free-spending jet setters and their entourages and families an excuse to come to San Diego each summer.

Random city charter amendments:
No to all of these. They were all too petty to be placed on the ballot.

Measure N: Yes, let’s get some of that sweet weed money flowing into the city coffers! A great opportunity for me to support a new tax I won’t have to pay!
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Voted no, this is actually a measure by the dispensaries and other weed industry people to put a very low MAXIMUM tax on weed. Cigarettes prices are more than 50% tax, but this limits weed to a tiny fraction of that, 15%.

You really have to be pretty biased in favor of no on ballot measures. Even good ones, by voting yes, you encourage a whole bunch of bad ones on the next ballot.

[poorgradstudent]

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Random city charter amendments:
No to all of these. They were all too petty to be placed on the ballot.

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t they need to go to the voters for any amendment to the city charter? So although they may be “petty”, these are changes the council can’t make without the voters.

Admittedly City Attorney’s Office job security has never kept me up late at night. But it would be nice to avoid another Filner situation where there was no mechanism for removal.

[gzz]

That sounds right, but just shows we need a rule that non-controversial changes to the city charter can be made without voter approval if the city attorney, mayor, and all members of the council agree.

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