GOALS -Informing & improving public policy through research

TO Maintain Marin as a Healthy Sustainable Community WITH REASONABLE density

High density and crowding will destroy the nature of Marin County; at this rate we could become another Livermore.
For example, look at the SMART TRAIN. The purpose of the Smart Train was to have a basis to bust open the housing market in Marin and foist the high cost of the "empty" train onto Marin taxpayers. Now Developers can claim "mass transit" exists so as to increase building and overcrowding.
The diesel belching train - is not a "green" solution - instead it is wasteful, costly and polluting. Marin taxpayers subsidize each passenger with $100 for each round trip.
Remember that the Measure lost in Marin but was forced upon us by a Sonoma Joint Powers group that overwhelmed the Marin vote against it.
The train has done virtually nothing to decrease traffic, and in fact it has dramatically increased traffic jams in downtown San Rafael; and caused train related deaths.

We stand for the proposition that Marinites should reject taxes and fees that require us to pay for our own demise.

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TO Reject Costly "Pet" Public Programs that add little value & INCREASE overlapping bureaucracies

Looking again at the SMART TRAIN: The CEO of the Smart Train gets paid $400k+; that bureaucracy set up its pensions as its first order of business - - self interest was their goal, not public services.

There were supposed to be no more taxes sought for SMART (if it passed the first time) that would take money away from local roads and traffic limits. That promise was broken.
The Smart Train is going broke already. This new tax is needed to get it out of overwhelming debt now.

Let it go like Gov Newsom let the money-sucking Bullet Train die.

The Wildfire tax will set up another bureaucracy versus putting our present, ample taxes to work removing vegetation and simply setting paths for evacuation.
Our competent traffic managers - already have plans in place - we really don't need another $20 Million tax annually - paid by already burdened taxpayers.
Tiburon and Belvedere wisely rejected participation in this Joint Powers Association [JPA] because (1) the services duplicated what they are doing already, and (2) they did not want to lose control to some un-elected group cutting down trees and landscaping with no local accountability

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Provide Clarity about Public Policy choices: what you votE for TODAY could bite you later

Every politician wants to add to an unsustainable tax burden on the backs of Marinites. Families are having to leave Marin due to these endless, added fees & taxes. Now even water is a "luxury" item at its present, unsupported cost. [A lawsuit is pending contesting the huge rate hike.]

All those taxes seem okay when the expensive mailers come . . . threatening one thing or another if the tax should not pass. It is scare-tactic politics. If the tax or fee passes, you have sticker shock when you see your tax bill.

Know what you are voting for and its impact on your family

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