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Telling Voters the Truth About Prop 1

The texts of the No To Proposition 1 Voters Pamphlet Statement and NoToProp1.Org radio and television follow. Links to the sources of specific information cited, to other research, and to our research associates are in the red column on the right of your screen. We have also included links to other Prop 1 opponents such as The Sierra Club.

You can listen to our radio and television voter messages by clicking on the links below, and you can see the NoToProp1.Org animated banner ad playing throughout this website. We also encourage you to email these MP3 files to your friends. These are the first in a series, and keep an eye on this space, to see and hear the others.

Radio: I Know What They Want

Radio: $157,000,000,000 Informative

Radio: John & Martha: Prop 1 Doubles Our Taxes

Radio: Why Ron Sims Says No to Prop 1

Radio: Prop 1 Confused

Radio: Prop 1 Is A Stinky Mess

TV: Prop 1 Costs Too Much, and Does So Little

No To Proposition 1 Voters Pamphlet Statement

Prop 1 contains the biggest local tax increase anywhere in America, ever. 

Prop 1 more than doubles--even triples--the average car license tab tax.  Doubles the Sound Transit portion of the regressive local sales tax.  And taxes you and your family---forever.

The tax bite is staggering: $157 billion over the next 50 years. That averages almost $2,000 per year for most households for the next half century. By comparison, voters said no to the Monorail when its understated taxes ballooned to $11 billion.

This is not a balanced plan. Only 10% funds roads. Just a fraction of that goes toward fixing dangerous bridges and crumbling freeways. Nearly 90% funds Sound Transit – which moves about 1% of all trips – while everyone else is stuck in even worse gridlock.  With or without this plan, traffic congestion will still double by 2028 according to Sound Transit’s own documentation.

In 1996, Sound Transit promised completion of its Ten-Year Plan within budget by 2006.  So what happened?  Billions in cost overruns, 10 years behind schedule, transit use declining as a percentage of travel, traffic increasing, and global warming worsening.

That's why leading Democrats, Republicans, and the Sierra Club all oppose Proposition 1.

Don't be fooled -- AGAIN.  Vote No to Proposition 1.

Text of NoToProp1.Org Radio & Television

It isn’t what Prop 1 wants to do with your money that you ought to be concerned about. 

It’s how much of your money Prop 1 plans to take.

One hundred fifty seven billion dollars. 

That’s right. 

Prop 1 costs one hundred fifty seven billion dollars over the next fifty years, averaging almost $2000 per year for most households. 

Prop 1 taxes don’t end, ever. 

Prop 1 is the biggest local tax increase anywhere in America, ever.

Prop 1 doubles its part of the local sales tax.

Prop 1 doubles--even triples--the car tab tax, too.

You already voted No to car tab taxes. 

This time, when you vote No to Prop 1, they’ll listen.

Because it costs too much, and does so little, Prop 1 is opposed by the Sierra Club.

Paid for by NoToProp1.Org, so you will know.