CAMEJO ANNOUNCES FOR GOVERNOR

WHAT THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE TO CALIFORNIA

California is the 48th state in school test scores.

California is the 49th state in home ownership.

California spends $600 per student less than the national average. It used to spend $600 dollars more.

California taxes the bottom 20% at a 57 percent higher rate than the top 1%.

Taxes on California's corporations have dropped 40% in the last 20 years, and 52% of all profitable corporations are now paying no taxes, while profits hit the highest percentage of GDP in the nations history.

For 35 years, 90% of Californians have had no inflation-adjusted increase in pay.

The poorest have had the minimum wage cut from $9.40 an hour in 1968 to the present level of $6.75.

For thirty years there has been no plan for our infrastructure.

During the 1980s adjusted for inflation California 's General Fund spending rose at 0% and from 1990 to 2003 at 1% per year.  How could a deficit be caused by over-spending as the Governor claims?

Our ancient forests have had 96% cut.

They limit solar energy in California to no more than ½ of 1% of our grid.

ALL THIS HAPPENED WHILE OUR ECONOMY MORE THAN DOUBLED.

AS GOVERNOR I WOULD:

Establish a fair tax where the richest 5% pay at least the same rate as the poorest 20% pay today.

 Adds 10 billion dollars a year to our budget.

Bring single payer universal health care to California .

 Adds 7.6 billion dollars a year to our budget.

Raise the minimum wage to what it was in 1968 $9.40

 Adds 3 billion dollars to our budget.

Return corporate taxes to what they were 20 years ago.

 Adds 4 billion dollars to our budget.

Stop tax fraud and close tax loop holes for the rich.

 Adds 7 billion dollars a year to our budget.

            WITH THESE EXTRA FUNDS AMONG THE THINGS I WOULD DO ARE:

Cut taxes on the bottom 60% of our people by 4 billion dollars a year.

Make a zero tax revenue shift in property taxes by lowering home owner taxes and increasing Prop 13 undervalued corporate properties.

Initiate a 2-year study by a non partisan group of professionals, labor, business, environmentalists and NGOs to prepare a 30 year infrastructure plan and set aside 8 billion dollars a year to fund it.

Launch an all-out crash program for alternative energy and technologies with a state subsidy from 2 to 4 billion a year seeking to make these alternatives market driven.

Launch a program for more affordable housing and helping first home buyers, based on the New Zealand experience.

Increase allocation for education by up to $10 to $15 billion a year while cutting the number of the overpaid administrative positions and shift our allocation of funding for teachers to what it was 50 years ago of over 50% of our budget.

Stop cutting our ancient forests.

Establish public funding of elections IRV (instant runoff voting) and proportional representation to establish a representative democracy in California out of the control of or influence by corporate lobbyists.

End the death penalty and three strikes, and free prisoners serving life sentences for minor nonviolent crimes.

Protect our bill or rights, the right to religion, assembly and petition and defend the first, fourth, and eighth amendment of our federal constitution, today openly violated by the Democrats and Republicans.