What lowering or eliminating taxes? In California, the state income tax is over 9%. The state sales tax is over 9%. Property taxes are extremely high. And despite borrowing 15 billion dollars from the Federal government this past fiscal year to cover shortfalls in unemployment payments, Governor Jerry Brown and the Democrat-run state legislature still managed to run a 16 billion dollar deficit. The problem here is that conservative principles of reducing spending and reducing taxation have NOT been applied. Businesses and the affluent are fleeing to other states as California is myopically proposing yet another tax increase to make up for the run away spending!
What lowering or eliminating taxes? In California, the state income tax is over 9%. The state sales tax is over 9%. Property taxes are extremely high. And despite borrowing 15 billion dollars from the Federal government this past fiscal year to cover shortfalls in unemployment payments, Governor Jerry Brown and the Democrat-run state legislature still managed to run a 16 billion dollar deficit. The problem here is that conservative principles of reducing spending and reducing taxation have NOT been applied. Businesses and the affluent are fleeing to other states as California is myopically proposing yet another tax increase to make up for the run away spending!