Speak up to help protect your retirement and life savings
This November, voters will decide whether to protect retirement accounts and life savings from new taxes, and whether to ban retroactive taxes on what people earned in the past.
We need to make sure voters hear from real Californians, like you.
Tell us why you’re voting YES. There’s no right or wrong way to share your story—just speak from your own experience.
If helpful, you can use one of the prompts below.
- How have you worked over the years to save for your retirement, and what does that security mean for you and your family?
- How do California’s high taxes and cost of living impact your financial security today? In the future?
- What would it mean for you/your family if the state taxed your retirement and savings, including money you saved years ago thinking the rules wouldn’t change?
“I’m a retired state employee living on my pension. At nearly 80, I can’t go back and start over if new taxes are imposed. The state needs to leave our retirement alone.”
"When you’re getting closer to retirement, you’re living on what you’ve set aside, so anything that cuts into that matters."
“If extra taxes are added, and there are not protections for people who are retired, we will not be able to live close to our family. Please protect our savings and retirement.”
“I worked two jobs before retirement. All taxes were paid. This is the only income we have. Government should not tax our retirement.”
“This is crazy. Of course NO taxing our retirement. Trying to make ends meet is hard enough.”
“My savings will be taxed when I use it and so will my husband’s pension. Taxing constituents twice is horrendous.”
“I saved for retirement for 28 years working as a firefighter paramedic. Why should I have to pay more than my fair share to the state who just keeps taxing?”
“I’m working hard to save for my retirement, and I want the confidence to know that those savings will be there when I need them.”
“I still haven’t been able to retire at 73 years old and you talk about taxes?!!!”
“I have been retired for over 10 years, I depend on my retirement to live on. If my retirement is taxed, I will move out of California.”
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