Contra Costa County, Measure B
Should Contra Costa County adopt a five-eighths of 1 cent (0.625%) sales tax for five years to address cuts in federal funding and support local services such as healthcare, supplemental food assistance and other general county services?
Yes Argument
“If we don’t act, lives will be lost. The federal government is cutting billions from healthcare. According to the county health director, our health system will lose more than $1.5 billion over the next five years. Measure B will keep the Contra Costa County Medical Center open and allow the county to maintain physical and mental healthcare that keeps people out of emergency rooms.”
No Argument
“Contra Costa County has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Measure B’s forerunner was 2020’s Measure X, a 0.5% sales-tax increase with similar advertised purposes. Now, allegedly, “lives will be lost” without Measure B. Since Measure X was adopted, total county spending has risen from $4.51 Billion to $7.37 Billion — a 63.4% increase that’s three-and-a-half times the Bay Area CPI inflation rate, while population growth was flat.”
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