[–] YugeDick 0 points 22 points 22 points (+22|-0) ago
It's always sold to them as a tax on the rich so the poor buy into it. And it usually is when it comes to income taxes. It's the usage taxes and sales taxes that the poor just don't see how it affects them too because they're told it affects the rich more since they buy and use more stuff... Not that they necessarily do, but that's the pitch.
[–] baneofretail ago
Also billions in unsold bonds that the state is supposed to issue. I think there's currently 80 billion currently sitting on their books that they can't sell right now cause the interest rate it too high.
[–] FuckYesJefferson 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago
Most of California's statewide propositions did not include raising taxes. Are you fucking stupid?
He's right. Only 2 of the statewide propositions were explicitly tax-related (5&6) and one was about eliminating a tax, the other alters how certain tax-exemptions may be transferred. All the rest are about how tax money may be spent, or bond measures or other stuff.
OTOH, OP may be talking about local measures, like SF's Prop C, giving a percentage of corporate revenues over $500M to the homelessness industry.
[–] LilBrattyMkr 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Taxes/Bonds, either way, money going from the people who earned it to the people who didn't.
[–] sn00tyfr00T 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Going out on a limb, election fraud is the answer