A regional public transit funding measure is being planned to prevent dire cuts and improve service for Bay Area transit.

Right now, the authorizing legislation for the measure only includes a sales tax. A sales tax does not raise enough funding to prevent service cuts, is less popular with voters, and disproportionately impacts working people. That's why it's crucial legislators include an option for a gross receipts tax on big businesses.

Your representatives on the SamTrans are the critical voices in this conversation. Urge them to support including a gross receipt tax option in the regional transit funding measure.