Raise the gas tax up another $3 and then use the funds for transit and to cut the income tax.
California’s stupidist tax is the business property tax on furniture. The County wants me to tell them the current deprecated value of my business’s furniture and PCs each year so they can tax 1% of it.
Are they kidding? No. I just paid $125 based on their own estimate of $12500. Which is way too high but who cares.
It isn’t the money, it is the presumption of wasting every business owner’s time to collect a pittance.