Just fucking pay the tax, dickwad.
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Would be cheaper...
Actually, there's a huge return on investment with bribes and political influence when you're a billionaire.
Citizens united was a death blow.
Reaganomics -> Contra -> Bush Sr -> Citizens United -> 9/11 -> Patriot Act -> Middle East wars -> bank bailouts -> Pause for pandemic -> insurrection -> old man Biden sleeps on imprisoning trump -> literal gestapo in the streets.
Citizen's United was in 2010.
But other than that, yeah it's been a long, slow fade...
Exactly. If they can bribe millions, they know they stand to make billions in returns.
High taxes are the compromise, we still have the torches and pitchforks if they're not interested
Personally, I prefer sickles and hammers, and at this point I no longer want to compromise with the billionaires.
When they pay obscene amounts of money to prevent paying taxes, or break unions, or disenfranchise voters, it's because they calculate that the obscene amount of money is less than what they'd expend otherwise.
Don't forget their ego
They may spend more in fighting it than they would in paying tax, but to avoid paying tax is a part of their identity
I'm proud to pay tax. I want to make my society better. I was rich once, and I could have paid less tax, but I didn't avoid it because I knew that arseholes like these were making the world worse, and I wasn't going to be a part of the problem
Honestly - in the event that this nature fails, California should just unleash a barrage of similar legislation like this, year after year. Eventually it would end up cheaper to just pay the taxes than continually fight against it.
That would make the California GOP rich...
That's pretty much exactly what the Antichrist would do.
No no no, the anti-Christ is obviously every single person who opposes invasive tech and the obscenity of billionaires. Doing the exact opposite of what Christ would do doesn't make you the anti-Christ, that would be too obvious.
Lobbying needs to gtfo and be illegal already. We don't talk enough about it because the America is on a tilt-a-whirl as it is
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
Is he spending more to fight the tax than he would pay in tax?
🤣 No....
These ghouls save billions by spending millions
The sad fact is that it works. They defeated similar changes in illinois just a few years ago by spending millions on advertisements telling people that the tax changes would ruin their lives.
yea that is trickle down economics for you. millions trickle down to politicians so that tech oligarchs can keep their billions
In a just world we would follow the money, and charge them with treason.
Oh and also freeze all his accounts, then charge every member of his staff associated with treason and him as well.
Manipulating voters or congressmembers is treason. If they want the death penalty to exist. Give it to all of them that don't rat out their senior who commanded it.
Will no one rid us of this turbulent cunt?
If that shithead wants it, that's how you know it's bad and should be opposed.
Newsom is opposed to it, too, so you extra know it's bad.
Another scam artist ,move on nothing to see here
DE-MO-CRA-CY!
What a fucken ghoul.
Did he give every citizens of California a million dollars? That might work.