http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...n-pay-higher-taxes-jerry-brown-135940376.html
This was rich. Really.
So this is a tax on billionaires, right?
Wrong.
Same article:
Got it? Billionaires are people earning 250k and more. And in California, with its high housing prices, 250k doesn't go that far.
Fuck Jerry Brown and his lying dishonest demagoging. Fuck California for electing "Moonbeams" yet again. They had the chance to turn out their shitty politicians in 2010 and they choked.
This was rich. Really.
Do the wealthiest Americans have a "moral" obligation to pay higher taxes?
California Governor Jerry Brown thinks so. Under Prop 30, the two-time Democratic Governor is calling for a 3% tax hike on the state's richest 1% to help pay for the cash-strapped state's education system.
"It takes a refined theory to say to billionaires that it's easier to take three weeks of school away from kids in Los Angeles than it is to take 3% away from people who make hundreds of millions of dollars a year," said Brown in an interview with The Financial Times.
So this is a tax on billionaires, right?
Wrong.
Same article:
Prop 30 calls for a sales tax increase and staggered tax increases over seven years for individuals making $250,000 and families earning $500,000 or more.
Got it? Billionaires are people earning 250k and more. And in California, with its high housing prices, 250k doesn't go that far.
Fuck Jerry Brown and his lying dishonest demagoging. Fuck California for electing "Moonbeams" yet again. They had the chance to turn out their shitty politicians in 2010 and they choked.
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