Bay Area voters approve a whole new kind of climate tax

Grist
By Katie HerzogJun 9, 2016, 1:59 pm66 pts
Bay Area voters approved a first-of-its-kind tax to fight the effects of climate change. Measure AA, which passed with 69 percent of the vote during California’s primary on Tuesday, will impose a new annual property tax of $12 per parcel. The funds raised — an estimated half billion dollars over the…

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