I don't want to go on a rant, but every time we say we've changed since the 60'/70's/80's/etc I ask okay, did the perpetrators of crimes back then be made to pay for their crimes? How can we say we've changed if we allow people who committed those crimes to walk scot free? This extends even to crimes committed against foreign nations; if we don't prosecute the guilty, how can we say we changed? It's just making excuses and protecting the guilty.
Now it's all coming home to roost.
If you want to close the chapter on this crime or that, you must prosecute the guilty, or else you create the conditions like today where people shrug their shoulders and go on with their lives. The Iraq war was a crime, was anyone in government taken to court for it? The boarding schools for indigenous people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? The experimentations on people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? Bush Senior's response to shooting down an Iranian passenger jet and murdering people was "I'm not an apologize for America kind of guy", and LIBS were defending him when he died. On and on.
We don't have a culture of holding politicians to account, and now when it's a politician we all hate, we feel it. We spent decades saying "that was in the past" and now we're seeing what that actually means.
They are "saying" they have changed their mind for PR reasons. These same fuckers supported extraordinary rendition, torture, and worse in the War on Terror and they are fascists too.
If Newsom doesn't take a more progressive stance I won't vote for him. I'm through voting for liberals that lie to your face then do the bidding of the billionaire class behind closed doors. That's exactly why nobody trusts the Democrat party anymore. I'm a lifelong Dem voter, but enough is enough. Never again. If you're pro-Israel or pro-billionaire, count me out.
He's already lost my vote in the primaries. Not that I'm in a state that ever mattered.
But once it's the general election I'll still vote blue unless there is a viable alternative which would be awesome but unlikely.
I highly doubt the right is going to put forward anything less than a far right candidate. A centrist is better than a these racist anti science regressives.
So "nearly half" of California's income tax revenue comes from the top 1% of earners, and "a few hundred" billionaires would be subject to this one-time tax.
There are approximately 20 million workers in California, so the top 1% of earners is about 200,000 people.
Even with a high end estimate, roughly 195,500 of the top 1% of earners will not be subject to this one-time tax. This bill only targets the top 0.0025% of earners in California.One four-hundredth of the top one percent.
Top 1% is just under a million a year, sounds like a lot but that's doable for top tier software engineer. Those people aren't going anywhere unless the companies themselves move.
It's still the easiest place to find and run a start up so most wouldn't necessarily leave.
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