By The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board in The San Diego Union-Tribune

May 13, 2016

Proposition 30, the 2012 ballot measure billed as a temporary increase in sales taxes on all Californians and income taxes on the wealthy, passed thanks to some extreme hardball by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature. They approved a 2012-13 state budget with a $6 billion shortfall that could be covered only if the measure was approved — and warned of chaos in public schools if it failed. Most voters went along, aware of the state’s fiscal woes and reassured by TV ads that someday the tax hikes would go away.

Now, however, the California Teachers Association and other groups that pushed Proposition 30 appear to have the signatures to place a measure on the November ballot that would prevent the temporary income tax hikes from expiring at the end of 2018 and keep them in place until 2030. The sales tax hike would be allowed to expire this year.

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