Double down and make this an annual tax.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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What we really need is a rollback of the Reagan tax cuts, and an actual end to TRICKledown economics, just for starters. Economic Vampires like Newsom must be excised from the Democratic party.
At the current rate, it would take 30 days for people to make that money back. They really really need to pay up, they forgot what the alternative is if they don't.
And this is why we're fucked. The system needs to change, but the people with the power to do so don't want the changes we need as it would remove their wealth and power... so when's the revolution because it'll only get worse until then.
This man is not presidential material.
If Newsom wins the dem primary for president I‘m gonna be sooo inconsolable.
Same, that future is dark as fuck.
Fortunately, this is exactly why we have ballot measures. Go vote!
Oh what's that you say? What's Gavin newsoms net worth? Oh I dunno 30 million, he surely doesn't have a dog in that fight huh?
This is how he will show America that he is a man of the people. A true champion of the working class!
Yeah he sucks on alot of issues. If you live in California, you already know that. Most politicians out of California are in the deepest pockets of the mega wealthy just due to ease of access.
This is predictable behavior from him. He knows where his bread gets buttered. This I hate less about him than his weird trans stances.
Id still take him over any Republicans but I'm open to anyone that wants to primary against him! I assume many California's are in the same boat for a multitude of different reasons. No broadly acceptable replacement has appeared though.
Prop 40 is basically a performative measure that will get tossed out in court. And it’s completely toothless. A quick little one time handout. The tax code needs to be changed at the Federal level. But hey, if this get y’all to actually vote, fine.
I’m fine with trying both Prop 40 and pressuring our government to permanently raise taxes on the obscenely (and not so obscenely) wealthy.
The state needs the money if they have any shot of covering the services shortfall that was cut federally. It's not about being punitive, that's just how they want you to think about it for propoganda purposes.
Yeah, you want everything so you oppose anything short of that. And that'd just mean that we'll be stuck even longer with the status quo.
The billionaires got their president. It’s “find out” time.