Fresh off teachers’ strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, three East Bay lawmakers are hoping to drum up money from the nation’s largest corporations who do business in California to generate billions more for K-12 schools, community colleges and early childhood education — while also helping reduce the state’s income-inequality gap.
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Calif. lawmakers propose taxing wealthiest corporations to pay for public schools to generate $5B/yr
“Regular Californians face the fourth-largest income inequality gap between the super-rich and the average resident,” Skinner said, referring to a ranking of U.S. inequality. “Meanwhile, we struggle to fund our schools, to fund essential services, and many Californians struggle to make ends meet."
Citing a tax windfall that major corporations received through President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law, California Democrats on Monday unveiled a plan to levy a steep tax hike on the state’s most profitable businesses.
Companies making the most money and paying their top management the biggest salaries would pay a lot more in taxes to help fund public schools if two Bay Area legislators have their way.
“In watching this debate nationally for the last three, four years, the momentum for this type of change has been building,” California state senator Nancy Skinner, a Democrat, told SB Nation.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Thursday that he won't release older records on state law enforcement agents' misconduct despite a recently released appeals court ruling that they are public documents.
State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who sponsored S.B. 1421, ripped Livingston.
"The new law, SB1421 by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, allows members of the public to obtain records of police disciplinary agencies that found officers had committed sexual assault or engaged in dishonest conduct at work, and of all investigations of an officer’s use of a firearm or of some type of deadly force."