I’ve seen a few worrying events in the past few days.
- East Bay Area School district is talking about closing campuses, merging schools, selling of property, and $100M deficit over next 3 yrs
- San Francisco School district sounding about the same
- BART talking about closing a significant number of stations
- CA budget deficit
It’s stunning to me that all this is going on and somehow we’re still not talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy or corporations.
https://amp.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article314632793.html
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-10/sen-bernie-sanders-california-billionaires-tax-campaign
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/california-wealth-tax-fears-have-billionaires-snatching-up-florida-real-estate
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democratic-fault-lines-emerge-californias-billionaire-tax-proposal-rcna255184
I’m aware of that proposal - however at least according to the school board presentation I saw, it wouldn’t end the problem with the district’s budget. And BART is pinning their hopes on a sales tax - one of the most regressive taxes possible. I think there’s more room to go.