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Speaker 1: our part. Hey, I got a proposition for you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you how to vote on the props. It's
Speaker 1: A and G extra large because four hours simply isn't enough.
Speaker 1: This is armstrong and getty extra large. Just this kind
Speaker 1: of California specific. We have this weird system in California
Speaker 1: where the too much democracy is the problem. Voters get
Speaker 1: to be misled by lying ads and go out and
Speaker 1: change laws with just a majority rule, change dang old constitution,
Speaker 1: and you end up with things like the freaking multi
Speaker 1: gazillion dollar bullet train that will never happen anybody's lifetime.
Speaker 1: So I hope this is interesting. It maybe as a
Speaker 1: warning to your state to never do this. Yeah, Gary,
Speaker 1: Dietrich joins as scary as nonpartisan political analysts. Follow them
Speaker 1: on the Twitter at Gary Dietrich. Uh if if you
Speaker 1: are are on the Twitter, Hello Gary, how are you? Sir? Hey,
Speaker 1: good guys, And you know what it is. I can't
Speaker 1: believe how many times we've done this, but there are
Speaker 1: some real big measures on this year's California November. Here's
Speaker 1: two things I think for people to keep in mind
Speaker 1: from a national perspective, which I know you guys will appreciate.
Speaker 1: One is so many times and Prop thirteen is probably
Speaker 1: the most famous in this than legendary tax limitation measure,
Speaker 1: which now we're gonna find one on this ballot, trying
Speaker 1: to modify that. But those measures in California often often
Speaker 1: have major skill over effects in other states down the
Speaker 1: road who look at adopting knows as well. And then
Speaker 1: one caveat to you know what, people pertibiously screwed up
Speaker 1: California proposition process. There have been times when you know,
Speaker 1: the taxpayers and citizenry at large have used the proposition
Speaker 1: process to rein in no actions by their own legislature
Speaker 1: or the governor that they Yeah, that's true. Gary, Although
Speaker 1: the Great Joe getty unifying theory, which I'll write in
Speaker 1: a book someday, but I won't because I'm an underachiever.
Speaker 1: Um is that in any open democratic process, those who
Speaker 1: would gain the system get better and better at doing it,
Speaker 1: to the point that they pervert the system almost beyond usefulness.
Speaker 1: And while absolutely there are actually a couple of props,
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of just a couple. Um. Mostly it's
Speaker 1: big money, powerful interests get the get all the signatures.
Speaker 1: They they have rosy sounding names for these props and
Speaker 1: great sounding descriptions, and then the descriptions and the voter
Speaker 1: guides are often distorted. And wisely spend money on radio advertising.
Speaker 1: Right that that part is very smart, But then the
Speaker 1: Secretary of State often prints misleading descriptions of them, and
Speaker 1: it's just gotten perverted. To Jack's plank. Though they helped
Speaker 1: keep angy on, youre but exactly amen to that, and
Speaker 1: anything beyond that is really, you know, trivial. Alright, So
Speaker 1: this is a real quick back into that. I think
Speaker 1: it's important people to know. You guys really make out
Speaker 1: to any points in a variety ways, and I do
Speaker 1: think it's important for people to know and they probably
Speaker 1: get this intuitively this year in California loan on this
Speaker 1: one election cycle, hundreds hundreds and hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars will be spent ping against our propositions. It really
Speaker 1: is a big deal. Yeah, okay, So here's what I
Speaker 1: have in mind, because there are a couple to three
Speaker 1: that we probably ought to discuss so people understand what
Speaker 1: they are. But the vast majority folks have emailed us,
Speaker 1: tweeted at us, etcetera. They just want to know how
Speaker 1: to vote. So we're gonna have Gary do a little
Speaker 1: analysis for us on the line. Partisan analysis. You don't
Speaker 1: mean how to get to the poll or how to
Speaker 1: fill out their form, how to vote, No, no, how
Speaker 1: they ought to vote on the propositions what they're should be.
Speaker 1: So we'll have Gary do a little nonpartisan stuff and
Speaker 1: then we'll get rid of him and I will just
Speaker 1: freaking tell you how to vote. We'll tell you what's
Speaker 1: clearly the right decision, the bone headed decision exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Are you a good American or a communist? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Well, I'm sure I'm sure that they
Speaker 1: will know that everything that comes out of your mouth, Joe,
Speaker 1: We absolutely, in the veracity will be on question. Hey,
Speaker 1: I have two sources that I think are really going
Speaker 1: to be helpful to people, and given the beginning of
Speaker 1: the end uh, they don't want them involved with directly,
Speaker 1: but they are nonpartisan, nonprofit sources that I think will
Speaker 1: be valuable for people who want to drill down further
Speaker 1: beyond their you know, ballot measure pamphlet they get from
Speaker 1: the stage. So whenever you want to show those, well,
Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead? People can jump them round
Speaker 1: and down right now, although you're wasting your time just
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell them how to vote, but go ahead, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know if any way you know question Joe's you know, authority, integrety.
Speaker 1: Here's what you want to do. This is this is
Speaker 1: a good one cal matters dot org. I love cal
Speaker 1: matters dot org. And here's the one I like about
Speaker 1: this one, guys. It doesn't just have stuff on the
Speaker 1: property positions, but it also has really good background ers
Speaker 1: on the California House and legislative races, which is tough
Speaker 1: to find in a lot of places. There's one for you.
Speaker 1: The other onn is e A Choices dot organ. You
Speaker 1: know it's both of these. Your daughter, so they're not
Speaker 1: for profit enterities. See a choices dot org. And I
Speaker 1: really like this one because it also includes two other
Speaker 1: really important things. One for all the larger counties in California,
Speaker 1: it's got your county ballot measures, which can be very significant,
Speaker 1: as you know, in their own rights. There in all
Speaker 1: kinds of other things. The other things got which is
Speaker 1: really outstanding, and it said the most extensive one of
Speaker 1: these lists I've ever seen is the folks who are
Speaker 1: for and against. So they'll take a whole list of nonprofits,
Speaker 1: a whole list of other energies, unions, et cetera, and
Speaker 1: they will go through each one of these and you'll
Speaker 1: see a massive grid of how each entity is stands
Speaker 1: on each proposition. And that can be very very valuable.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're for against you really don't like
Speaker 1: the perspective on a certain group organization, this tell you
Speaker 1: where they stand on every ballot measure. Yeah, I will
Speaker 1: also tell you. I was on ballot pedia dot com.
Speaker 1: I think that's a dot com. I found that to
Speaker 1: be very informative. All right, Gary, why don't you pick
Speaker 1: pick one or two that you you want to talk
Speaker 1: about you think people ought to understand. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: think the two big ones, guys, if we're really to
Speaker 1: pick out the two that have gotten the most attention
Speaker 1: and are probably have the most long range impact, Let's
Speaker 1: start with Prop fifteen the tax The Prop thirteen modification measure, though,
Speaker 1: would significantly increase taxes on business. Now Prop thir team
Speaker 1: is the legendary kindly sticking it to the millionaires and
Speaker 1: billionaires who run the business is finally gone. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that includes you, Jack, Okay, So you know the the
Speaker 1: important thing is for people who remember and this this
Speaker 1: is amazing. Way back in Jerry Brown Euro one, back
Speaker 1: in the late seventies or eight, Prop their team came
Speaker 1: along that limited the ability of government to increase property
Speaker 1: taxes on an annual basis a maximum increased per year
Speaker 1: of two percent, regardless of how much the property value increased.
Speaker 1: And of course, in a place that California in most
Speaker 1: places put me every place in the state of California
Speaker 1: property value has gone up way more than two percent
Speaker 1: on an annual life basis. So this limited for both
Speaker 1: homeowners and businesses, the annual increase in your property taxes
Speaker 1: two percent. Now they has been talking about, guys, since
Speaker 1: I came to the capitol over thirty years ago two
Speaker 1: so called go to a split roll split roll tax
Speaker 1: or hear that term a lot. It simply means that
Speaker 1: we would treat homeowners the same as they all have
Speaker 1: been has been since popped their team. But it would
Speaker 1: move business owners off of that protected status um to
Speaker 1: increase their taxes more substantially on the value of the
Speaker 1: properties increase itself. Any size business like including a mom
Speaker 1: and pop like coffee shop or something. Any business depends
Speaker 1: if they own it the property. Yeah, that's a really
Speaker 1: great question, Jack. And this is the limit that is
Speaker 1: the one the part of it it's really debated about.
Speaker 1: It limits the increase the change in prop their team
Speaker 1: for businesses to those business owners that hold three million
Speaker 1: dollars or more in commercial property. So the idea is
Speaker 1: that real small business owners like you're talking about, Jack,
Speaker 1: if you've got your little, you know, little tiny shot
Speaker 1: that kind, if they're doing coffee, it would not change
Speaker 1: those people's property taxes. However, and this is really an
Speaker 1: important caveat if your business, like the one you're talking about, Jack,
Speaker 1: is a fantasy average strip mall, right, and that strip
Speaker 1: mall is valued at more than three million dollars, which
Speaker 1: many many of them lawn California. Then, of course your
Speaker 1: landlord who you rent or lease your coffee shop from,
Speaker 1: is just going to eat the increase in taxes because
Speaker 1: they're so wealthy, and they're gonna leave the rent the
Speaker 1: same for all the tenants in the building. I understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, and people. If he didn't get sarcasm,
Speaker 1: that was it. So here here's the deal. Um, that's
Speaker 1: really important because it does mean that, you know, most
Speaker 1: small businesses honestly are leasing or renting their their establishments.
Speaker 1: They are not buying them. And so for those who
Speaker 1: are in those kinds of entities I just talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, their rents almost assuredly as you're alluding to,
Speaker 1: Jack would go up. Yeah, getting to the you know,
Speaker 1: getting to the because you're staying nonpartisan, getting to the
Speaker 1: US telling you how to vote. Part. That's the great
Speaker 1: lie in all this is the claiming that it's not
Speaker 1: going to have any effect on that, you know, the
Speaker 1: little mom and pop shop they're running for somebody there.
Speaker 1: It's not going No, of course, the guy who owns
Speaker 1: the man or woman who owns the giant building that's
Speaker 1: running out to the skateboard shop, the coffee shop, the
Speaker 1: yogurt place. Their taxes went up a lot. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to increase their rent obvious to cover their not
Speaker 1: it would be insane, insane, insane to hammer California business
Speaker 1: with a massive tax increase right now in the middle
Speaker 1: of COVID. It would be practically suicidal. Uh. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: make it a really important point there, Joe, Because the
Speaker 1: thing about propositions that are very interesting is some the
Speaker 1: timing of them is often as important as the content
Speaker 1: of them. And so this of course was qualified for
Speaker 1: the ballot long before any of us ever knew the
Speaker 1: word COVID, and it was placed on the November ballot.
Speaker 1: And it's often the case, it is very often the
Speaker 1: case that measures that they were going to increase taxes
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know, people wait if it's
Speaker 1: an over session, they don't. They frequently, by the way,
Speaker 1: will wait for these kind of things for general election
Speaker 1: cycles rather than are off your every two for your
Speaker 1: grouping a toial election cycles, because generally higher turnout, right,
Speaker 1: much higher turnout for general lessons, and so people will
Speaker 1: time the propositions accordingly. In any of that, here's the
Speaker 1: bottom line it's guestimated that somewhere somewhere between ten and
Speaker 1: twelve billion dollars would be the annual tax increase revenue.
Speaker 1: The stated California because California doesn't take enough tax. Sorry, Gary,
Speaker 1: pick another prop. Alright, so let's go to Prop twenty
Speaker 1: two real quick, because this is the gig economy prop. Alright,
Speaker 1: this is Uber Lift Door Dash. This one really does alongless.
Speaker 1: This team, I believe, had very national implications. And the
Speaker 1: bottom line is this. Whenever you call an uber or
Speaker 1: lift driver, you are calling an independent contractor. They are
Speaker 1: not an employee of the entity. They run their own
Speaker 1: car shop. I mean they contract with that employer. They
Speaker 1: get paid so much per ride or delivery, and that's
Speaker 1: how it works. There's no benefits or or you know,
Speaker 1: workers comp or things like that. Well, the state of
Speaker 1: California took it upon itself to say, no, like many men,
Speaker 1: that's not fair. He's driving your Uber and you're not
Speaker 1: giving him health insurance is not fair man. So yes, Jack, So,
Speaker 1: So what happened is they qualified them through legislation passed
Speaker 1: by the state legisctature signed by Governor Newsom to make
Speaker 1: all these people employees. So what did Luber and Lift do. Essentially,
Speaker 1: I said, we are not going to follow the law.
Speaker 1: We're gonna file lawsuits on this, and by the way,
Speaker 1: we are going to put a major measure on the
Speaker 1: November ballot, basically a referendum on that law that would
Speaker 1: do two things. Guys, this important. It would repeal that
Speaker 1: in wid those independent contracts would not be required to
Speaker 1: be employees. And it also puts in place some things
Speaker 1: that would protect these independent contractors and provide for them
Speaker 1: in new ways, like guarantee a certain minimum wage when
Speaker 1: they're actually driving, not just waiting for give them some
Speaker 1: subsidies for healthcare, give them workers. Are they So? How
Speaker 1: is this how is this one worded? If I vote yes,
Speaker 1: am I voting to continue to have UBER in the state?
Speaker 1: Or yeah? What what you're continue? What you're if you're
Speaker 1: voting yes, Jack, what you can what you're doing is
Speaker 1: saying these drivers can continue to be independent contracts, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think national implications for California on
Speaker 1: this one, aside from the fact that it's ridiculous from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of an individual driver getting to make that
Speaker 1: decision with an employer and all that. Right, their adults
Speaker 1: they can make that California will be the laughing stock
Speaker 1: of the country when people start coming to California on
Speaker 1: vacation or for conferences or for business and they land
Speaker 1: at the airport and they have to take a freaking
Speaker 1: old timy yellow cab because there's no Uber. I mean
Speaker 1: everybody in the country will be aware. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you went to California. I know. Isn't it terrible how
Speaker 1: they don't have Uber there anymore? Or door dash so
Speaker 1: I couldn't get anything to eat at the hotel. It
Speaker 1: sucks well. Gary Dietrich is a non partisan political analysts.
Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter at Gary Dietrich. Gary,
Speaker 1: we appreciate the wisdom very much and thanks for turning
Speaker 1: a sound to those websites c Choices dot orgon cal
Speaker 1: Matters dot org. Thanks man, always a pleasure. Thanks. Have
Speaker 1: you seen any polling on any of these? By the way,
Speaker 1: even I know there's a pulling of like the Uber thing.
Speaker 1: The prop twenty two is it's five to one or
Speaker 1: four to one. Uber drivers are in favor of it.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh my god, yes, I want a flexible joke.
Speaker 1: I want to drive six hours a week. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. I just I never know how informed
Speaker 1: the public is. Like Prop sixteen, the idea of bringing
Speaker 1: back racism to California, where you can determine things based
Speaker 1: on race, I don't know how that's polling, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd like to see that. So, um, we'll run through
Speaker 1: these real quickly. If you're in a hurry, I will
Speaker 1: tell you this. There's a question mark that restores voting
Speaker 1: rights for persons on parole. That's up to you. It's
Speaker 1: what you it's your opinion. I don't have a strong
Speaker 1: opinion on that one. I don't think you ought to
Speaker 1: lose your rights forever because you you make a mistake.
Speaker 1: But they're on parole. Yeah, how about until you're off
Speaker 1: parole you don't vote. That's fine with me. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: dur in fact, Yeah, that's that's a good point. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's once you're off parole you can vote. But
Speaker 1: there is one yes, and that's twenty two one yes.
Speaker 1: The rest are no. Most of them are f no.
Speaker 1: Would you say that in general, if you lean right,
Speaker 1: you're a no vote on props. Yeah. A couple of exceptions, obviously,
Speaker 1: but yeah, in general, absolutely true. Yeah, twenty two is
Speaker 1: the only yes because it restores freedom of employment. The
Speaker 1: rest of them are tax increases, I mean properly teen
Speaker 1: for instances. It lets children vote if they'll turn eighteen
Speaker 1: in the next general election, lets them vote for primaries
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Seventeen year olds idiotic And you
Speaker 1: know if that one passes, then they lower it to sixteen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. And there's the cash bail thing in
Speaker 1: various consumer privacy laws. But they're all extremely problematic, and
Speaker 1: they're often either wolves in sheep's clothing or they have
Speaker 1: a stated purpose and fourteen pages in in the fine
Speaker 1: print is something truly insidious. That's another way it's a
Speaker 1: trojan horse. Is are there more more than one box
Speaker 1: to vote for yes or no? Is there a hell
Speaker 1: no and then half no? Right, I'd rather see my
Speaker 1: sister a warhouse and my brother voting for this proposition. No,
Speaker 1: there's just a yes and no no. So everything is
Speaker 1: no except twenty two. Vote in good health, my friends,
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