Economic Justice L.A. Calls Urgent Action: Tax Big Oil = Fund Education
This seemed worthy of publicizing.
What if we could get the oil companies to give schools kindergarten through universities 3 billion dollars a year? We can, if we get Proposition 1481 on the ballot. Authored by Cypress College Professor Peter Mathews, Prop 1481 is the ballot initiative that would tax oil extraction to fund education. California is the only state that does not tax oil extraction.
We can:
- Make higher education affordable to all
- Improve funding for K-12, reduce class size and prevent