POMONA CITY TAX MEASURE, IN 2024 ELECTIONS, AGAIN!
Pomona, California, Measure PG, Sales Tax (November 2018)
Ballot question
The ballot question was as follows:[1]
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To maintain/prevent reductions to City services including 911 emergency response times, police/fire protection, drug/gang-prevention, youth/after-school/park programs, address homelessness; fix streets/potholes, maintain library services, provide senior, business development and other general services for the City of Pomona, shall the measure establishing a ¾¢ sales tax providing approximately $12,000,000 annually, ending after a period of 10 years be adopted, requiring public disclosure, oversight, all funds for Pomona?[2] |
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Five years later, 2023
Video in Spanish followed by English translation
In 2018, Pomona voters allowed the city to increase a 1/4% sales tax with the promise of improving the police and 911 services, reducing homelessness, and improving street conditions. The city is collecting $16 Million extra with the ¼ of a tax increased by this measure, yet the citizens of Pomona do not see the difference or the benefit. The Police service continues to be delayed and inefficient even though it costs the citizens 50% of the general budget, equivalent to 72 million per year. The homelessness problem continues to increase every year, and the city’s streets are as deteriorated as before or worse.
The people are the masters of the government system. People elect the city representatives so that the latter can use the entire government system in the people's favor. Contrarily, the public servants deliberately concentrate all their attention on representing the institutions instead of their represented. The following chart shows the place of the people in the government organization chart, being the masters and owners of the entire system, but it is like the world upside down. The city-elected employees care for everything else except the welfare of the people.
The second chart shows that 48% of the general budget goes to the police, and the other 24% goes to the fire department. The city's top management employees also make hundreds of thousands in salaries. In reality, city directors work mainly to find ways to rip off the people, financially speaking, making the governmental institutions a financial parasite. Click here to see the city budget.
