[quote=paramount]This is all about wealth redistribution and socialism/communism which dominates California politics.
The largely socialist/communist California assembly understands demographics well; and they understand that the bulk of this commie tax will come from the generally more conservative suburbs. And that a good part of this money will go to their supporters (and not roads).
It’s the same motivation for charging light pickup truck drivers a huge yearly surcharge/tax/fee just because they drive a pickup. Most of these assembly members understand that the majority of their supporters don’t drive pickup trucks.
We already pay enough taxes in California – start rolling back the outrageous pay/benefits for govt workers and California will have more than enough money to maintain roads.[/quote]
I don’t think a day goes by where I read the paper and don’t see some kind of chicanery that goes on with our country/state. Everyone is in it to get their own (me too if I knew how to get my share probably)…
Last week, I think it was the guy who setup Charter schools and stiffed all the schools he setup where he got 5% or something.
This week, I read the UC Davis Chancellor apparently had a side gig making 70k with Dewry college (scam school) and also was on the board of Wiley and Sons (textbook maker…so does anyone see why we keep having to get NEW text books each year?!? and I think she pocketed 100k+ there?). This is of course, on top of her 450k+ or so salary as UC Davis Chancellor…
There are some calls for her to resign, but not a day goes by where there is some bribe/special interest crap that goes around in our world now…
Our tax laws with all these companies like Facebook paying 8k or so in tax for ALL of the UK is insane and stupid. Not to mention Amazon, Google and Apple in that camp also. Those companies with billions in revenue pay less taxes than you and people wonder why our infrastructure is down the shits…
Part of the problem with taxes is that the ULTRA rich people and companies pays little or none of it.
I really think our whole system is pretty f-cked up and unless something is done to change it or at least make it more fair/equitable, I don’t think it’s going to make anyone want to pay their share since you see the ultra wealthy abusing the crap out of the system.
As a poor bloke, you can tax poor people all you want, but at the end of the day, some guy making 100 bucks can only be taxed for 100 bucks…
Go after all the corporate cheats and you will have more revenue so you won’t have to hit everyone else so much.
Of course, you now run into the problem of our politicians being “bought” by these corporate companies so good luck trying to fix the laws to benefit anyone else.
At the end of the day, the wage slave (W-2) will get hit since its the easiest to go after them, rather than corporate tax reform.
