A few years ago, California voters passed the Mental Health Services Tax. That tax is a 1% surtax on those making $1 million or more.
Come February 2009 the Legislature looked at how to balance California’s budget. Why not use some of that surtax? Proposition 1E would divert $230 million to the general fund of funds raised with the Mental Health Services Tax.
I don’t have an opinion on the measure. I do, though, have an opinion on the title of the measure. It’s called:
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FUNDING. TEMPORARY REALLOCATION. HELPS BALANCE STATE BUDGET.
Yeah, that’s unbiased….