GOALS -Informing & improving public policy through research

• 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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$17 million for salaries and goats

• The Wildfire tax passed by a hair. It was supposed to be operated by existing Fire Depts and representatives of the towns that supported it. [Tiburon and Belvedere opted out as they knew it duplicated services.] 
• Instead, they took the $18 million annual tax  (of 10 years) and they started giving out salaries for CEOs and Administrators, now up to $600,000 - and they just started.  
  They could have added REAL firemen instead.
•  They can't even figure out where to spend all that money, so they just gave a chunk that was otherwise funded by other government money and donations - - to remove vegetation, just like they were doing before. They added more goats; did that cost $17 million this year?? Must be Marin Goats.