Again Folks, the City of Riverside is actually polling the public to craft its propaganda campaign for the upcoming revenue measure, known as Measure C for this November 2021. This is how the City plays the game from there exclusive new best seller, “How to Fleece a Taxpayer” which coincides with their previous release, “If You Want It, Just Take It!” :
1) The City gets caught (last Fall) illegally taxing its ratepayers through what’s called the General Fund Transfer (11.5% of your electric utility bill is actually a tax you never approved in violation of Prop 26, 2010). See: Parada vs. City of Riverside.
See: Moreno vs. City of Riverside. The Original Water Law Suit
3) The City then places a ballot measure for the November 2021 election using persuasive (violative of State election code) vs. factual information: “To maintain 911 response, fire, paramedic, police, street repairs, parks, senior, other general services, shall the City Charter be amended to continue collecting in electric rates and maintain the voter-approved fund transfer existing since 1968, limited to 11.5% of gross revenue, providing approximately $40,000,000 annually to City of Riverside’s General Fund that does not increase tax or utility rates, until ended by voters, requiring audits/ all funds benefiting Riverside residents, be adopted?” The general idea is to scare the public as to where the City might cut funding (i.e. the things the public cares the most about).
4) Then the Public Union money comes pouring in to send propaganda materials out the month before the election, USING THE PR AND POLLING DATA/INSIGHTS YOU PAID FOR, to tell you the world will end if you don’t vote for the Measure C, but not mentioning City employees will be the biggest beneficiaries of the ballot measure.
The same strategy was used successfully for Measure A (Water Fund Transfer), Measure Z (sales tax increase), and the latest utility rate hike (probably others I’m forgetting at the moment). For example Measure Z resulted in many City employees getting nearly a 25% raise over the course of two years…money you were told would go towards enhancing your quality of life. That raise also made our unfunded pension liabilities skyrocket…which then precipitated the City selling pension bonds last Summer…which guaranteed much of our public employee pensions (80-90% of highest salary for life with retirement in their 50s often, to which I ask, ‘Where’s the fairness towards the private sector asked to pay these packages?” The dishonesty of how our local government agencies continue to act should by this point make you understand that you should vote ‘no’ on all future “revenue measures,” also known as “hidden tax revenue schemes.”
A WORD FROM CITY OF RIVERSIDE GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG, JASON HUNTER: SORRY FOLKS THE SOUND IS BAD, INCREASE THE VOLUME.
SHOULD LIFE JACKETS BE MANDATORY? A QUESTION TO PONDER SINCE NOT HAVING THEM CAN CREATE A DANGER TO THOSE AROUND YOU, INCLUDING YOURSELF!
BOTTOM LINE GOVERNMENT SHOULD LIVE WITHIN THEIR MEANS, AFTER ALL, WE THE TAXPAYER MUST….
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This and many other reasons why after living in the city of Riverside for over 30 years and seeing the continuing corruption in that government we moved out. Just sick and tired of the corrupt politicians fleecing the residents year after year and often passing legislation without the people’s knowledge.
Actually, your comment best fits the Utility Users Tax implemented by a City Council vote in May of 1970. The voters were never asked to approve it yet you have been paying a 6.5% tax upon your electric, water and gas consumption for over 50 yrs and nobody asked if you wanted to pay it. Today they reap $39m/yr. from the UUT. By the way – the UUT is also applied to the 11.5% tax Measure C is asking you to vote for. So we all are paying 18 % of our City utility bill in taxes. They are getting $70m a year from this scheme. Vote NO on Measure C!
Thanks Scott!
Thanks Nicholas!
The City of Riverside wants you the voters to approve a tax upon the gross revenue of the City Electric Utility. In effect applying a new income tax upon a government agency.
This is constitutionally forbidden. The State and its’ municipalities are Sovereign entities
exempt from taxation upon its’ government activities. Only the state legislature can do this and they have chosen not to do so. Sovereignty is not discretionary and the City nor the voters can wave it. One government agency cannot tax another agency without express statutory authorization – which does not exist for the taxation of income.
“…the foregoing rule of construction precludes one arm of state government from taxing another arm absent express authorization.” Sacramento Municipal Utility District v. County of Solano, supra, at 54 Cal. App.4th 1167.
Thanks Scott!