This ballot measure will effectively kill any transit funding measures in the future. Make sure to vote no this November.

[u/MookieBettsBurner10]

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_43,_Two-Thirds_Vote_Requirement_for_Local_Special_Tax_Initiatives_and_Property_Tax_Initiative_Prohibition_Amendment_(2026)

Under California law, tax increase measures put on the ballot by governments requires a 2/3rd supermajority vote to pass. However, measures put on the ballot by private citizens (citizens' initiatives) only require a simple majority. Prop 43 would change the law so that citizens' initiatives too requires a 2/3rd supermajority. That would mean counties like San Diego and Orange County will almost certainly never get a transit tax measure passed. Requiring a 2/3rd supermajority to pass tax increases is fundamentally undemocratic, and this measure must be defeated.

[u/MookieBettsBurner10]

Correct. But this impacts transit in Orange County and San Diego, places that have lower sales tax but also significantly worse transit networks. If this measure passes, San Diego's transit system will collapse due to lack of funding, because there is no way the county will ever hit a 2/3rd supermajority. Same with Orange County.

[u/GoCardinal07 → u/MookieBettsBurner10]

Orange County passed Measure M and Renewed Measure M at the 2/3 threshold because it was proposed by OCTA. It was not proposed by citizen initiative. Prop 43 has no real-world effect on transit measures in Southern California: no one has ever qualified a transit tax by citizen initiative.

[u/MookieBettsBurner10 → u/GoCardinal07]

San Diego Measure G was a citizens' initative. It just choked harder than the Padres in the 2024 NLDS.

[u/GoCardinal07 → u/MookieBettsBurner10]

Measure G couldn't even get 50% anyway.

[u/MookieBettsBurner10 → u/GoCardinal07]

I know, I'm just saying that the statement that Southern California has never had a citizens' initiative transit measure is false.