Albany Measure R

Reasons

• “The gross receipts tax is structured as a progressive tax, meaning it would fall heaviest upon large businesses.”

  East Bay Democratic Socialists of America · Source

• “An employee-based tax can effectively penalize businesses for hiring workers, while a receipts-based tax relates the tax more directly to the scale of the business’s economic activity.”

  League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville · Source

Reasons

• “Imposes a new costly sales tax despite that will destroy jobs to simply support more massive levels of wasteful spending by the city.”

  Reform California · Source