I think both of these taxes will be good for my city, which I think of as more a progressive place than a reactionary or conservative place. Large employers can more afford to handle the real costs of having SO MANY employees impact my home city environment. And, weed is now legal enough in California, by a state-wide majority vote, that we should figure out how to get local revenue from it's recreational sale within our city.

YES on Measure P
YES on Measure Q
(mind your Ps and Qs)

Everybody has one here and they all think they're right and that the other side is insane. Then they'll tell YOU how to vote, because without them and their support and/or name calling, how would you know? After that we can all watch the "Likes" so we can feel validated, even though we're Liking our own comment. Ahhh, I matter.

I think this is going to hurt small businesses. Google can afford the tax. What about the restaurants, coffee shops, vac n sew, etc? Will they all just pass the cost on to us, their consumers, by increasing prices?? To heck with this tax!

The biggest questions are how much will the city make and what will they use the money for?

Can you please modify the article to contain links to the actual text of measures P and Q?

For City Council it should be clear to everyone:

Anyone BUT Siegel, Showalter and Rosenberg. It's high time a new council is elected to lift Mountain View out of the cf it's in now.

What a horrible article! What it doesn't say is that the new, higher fee is small, from $5-$10 annually per employee for a small company up to only $150/year per employee for a large company. For a huge tech company, this is the cost of an hour or two of the employee's time, so like a 0.1% tax. See the city's analysis: Web Link

You said,
"I think both of these taxes will be good for my city, which I think of as more a progressive place than a reactionary or conservative place"

Here is another tax that I know "progressives" are happy about, that is the "Gas and Vehicle Tax"

Republicans got in on the state ballot for a repeal vote by the people. Is is known as Proposition 6 on the ballot.

The Democrats and Governor Brown fought like hell to kill it, and now they are even using Caltrans to stop cars on the freeway to hand out flyers to oppose this ballot Proposition.

Who ever said that progressives are for the little people have been smoking way too much of that funny stuff.

After November 6 and proposition 6 is repealed, the little people can thank the Republican party for that.

Vote Yes on Prop.6

Could someone list the party affiliation of the candidates of the city council candidates? I know the council is non-partisan but the party of a candidate is the single most important factor for my vote.