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Waite: We Don't Need Another Tax Increase for Public Transit
The measure would raise about $975 million in its first full year and send the largest shares to BART and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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Waite: We don't need another tax increase for public transit
Santa Clara County voters have been generous to VTA. Today’s sales tax rate includes four ballot measures — from 1976, 2000, 2008 and 2016 — totaling 1.625%, providing VTA nearly $900 million per year. Now, supporters of Connect Bay Area, a 14-year regional transit measure for the Bay Area, propose adding another 0.5%, giving VTA... The post Waite: We don’t need another tax increase for public transit appeared first on San José Spotlight.
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Leaning Left2Leaning Right0Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Left
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Left
67% Left
L 67%
C 33%
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