The main article follows the summary below for youth.
😽 Keepin’ It Simple Summary for Younger Readers 👧🏾✊🏾👦🏾
The current RTA tax expires in just 3 months—you’re almost done paying ⏳. But Props 418/419 rush a March vote 🗳️ so they can claim “no tax increase” before June 30, when it would honestly be a NEW tax going from 0% to 0.5% 📈🚨.
It’s like refinancing a paid-off mortgage🏠—except not for your house, but for future sprawl in Marana and south of Tucson 🏗️. RTA-1 completed only 51% of promises after 20 years 📉, yet they want another $2.67B and two decades 💸.
Tucson pays 60% of revenue 💰 but watches $910M+ flow to suburban projects like the $242M Cortaro interchange 🛣️ and massive Vail expansions—building NEW roads through desert 🏜️ for FUTURE subdivisions during a megadrought 🚱🌵…