Props 2026
Richie Rich v. Average Joe
On This Route
TL;DR
So you got this far, maybe wanna know how I chose things? It’s called the Official Voter Information Guide provided by our Secretary of State, you should’ve gotten one in the mail. This is your real source of truth around our propositions and what they mean and do. The Secretary of State’s job (in California, anyways) is to provide unbiased and data-driven estimated outlooks on both what these props mean, and what these props will do. I always read the prop descriptions, the proponents, the opponents, their reasons for, their reasons against, sprinkle in my own biases (obviously) and reach a conclusion. I do not listen to TV ads or the crap they send in the mail, those are very biased, misleading, and are outright lying at times.
You are more than welcome to argue that the Secretary of State could be biased and lying, just as you are more than welcome to treat a Facebook post or Reddit meme as a source of truth, but just note that the Secretary of State can be sued, and have their career put into jeopardy if they even attempt to slide one way or another on these props, while the fat farts online can just shit whatever opinions they want from their keyboard and into the social media echo chamber of stupidity and suffering. It’s your choice! Just like it was my choice to post this blog-slop after a few friends said they don’t even research this shit for themselves. I get we’re all busy, so for my friends’ sake and anyone reading, here’s my napkin-written homework:
1 : YES
Come on, we gotta help our vets. Also general affordable housing, and down payment assistance. The vets deserve $11.25B to help them.
2 : YES
Shit’s gonna get real shitty in the near future thanks to the orange jackass and child-eating pedos who run this country. We need an emergency fund for true essential services (explicitly education, health care, public services, and safety services).
3 : YES
Unless you’re making $371K annually as an individual, this will not impact your bottom line. This tax goes 100% to our state education department.
4 : YES
This is not a mandatory thing, cities would have to opt into it. Basically, this would allow cities to set aside an election fund that would go towards locals who want to run for office, as well as set election spending limits. This means some average folk and some rich shmuck could potentially run election campaigns with an equal amount of spending. We should encourage more local participation in our elections instead of having rich dynasties being the only ones able to afford to run.
5 : YES
Recall elections are so stupid easy for the losing party to kick off and have the state waste millions of tax dollars. Now, instead of forcing binary recalls of A v. B, a recall would involve the current sitting politician and any new candidates, so it’s not just tied to one butt-hurt candidate who lost the first election.
37 : YES
Who can complain about a government-provided loan for 17% on a $1.5M newly constructed property for mid-income buyers, assuming the buyers put down a minimum of 3%? Anything to help people afford a house.
38 : NO
There is no reason my tax dollars should explicitly go towards immunotherapy based on popular vote. We literally have science, health, and research committees with funding that decide on what we should allocate spending on. It doesn’t make any sense that I, the average voter, should make the decision on immunotherapy research.
39 : NO
Voter fraud isn’t an issue in California. People get caught. They get punished. Forcing some sort of ID is just a blatant attack on the poor, unless of course we provide free state IDs, but that’s not mentioned in this prop so it’s a moot point.
40 : YES
This prop would only negatively impact you if you have literally (no seriously, literally) $1B (billion dollars) worth of assets under your name. If you do not have $1 billion, then you will not be impacted. Taxed billionaires will have 90% of their funds go to state health care, and 10% towards food & education assistance programs. This is a one-time tax, and it impacts billionaires from the 2025 tax year. No, they will not leave California.
41 : NO
This prop was literally (no seriously, its majority funding is from billionaires) put in place by billionaires to prevent props like 40 from ever existing, so unless you are a billionaire, vote no.
42 : NO
This prop (like 41) was literally (again, majority funding paid for by billionaires) put in place by billionaires to prevent props like 40 from ever taxing assets under their names, so unless you are a billionaire, vote no.
43 : NO
This prop (like 41 and 42) was actually funded by a mix of billionaires and millionaires, but a lot of well-off people don’t like that the majority (greater than half) of the voters are allowed to approve taxes, instead they want to raise that bar to 2/3 because it’s easy for them to pay money on misinformation around taxes and forever hoard their wealth away from goods and services the rest of us rely on.
44 : NO
There is zero reason to penalize non-profit health organizations for not allocating 90% of their funds to patient health. Why? Other than all the processes already in place by both the health non-profit orgs and government auditors, these are still health care clinics that need staff, hardware, legal support, and insurance admin who need to get paid to work and provide health care to those in need. It costs a lot of money to run these places, and just putting a blanket 90% of funds toward “patient services” actually cuts out the staff, hardware, and admin (bureaucracy) required to run these things. If you’re really interested in learning more, read up on who supports/funds this prop, and think for a minute on what the opposite of a non-profit health care clinic would be.
45 : YES
A bunch of rich, entitled assholes don’t want their lawsuits to have to be cut short when we need public transit, public schools, or public anything built. This prop expedites the CEQA review process so that it’s done in a fraction of the time to not bog down development. It does not cut corners, it just puts it at a higher priority so it’s accomplished sooner and rich, entitled asshole lawsuits don’t cause development to sit in limbo for years upon years. Currently, rich, entitled assholes can file lawsuits and slow down any development if it happens to involve a plot of land they like looking at, we can’t let them do that.