WTH is “The Board of Equalization?”
Seriously, that is so Orwellian that it sounds to the left of Stalin.
It's a clever scam, too. Taxes can always be initiated for some necessity or good cause. Then the Board of Equalization can later say that those taxes unfairly target a particular subgroup, so let's raise taxes on other groups in the interest of fairness. There's no ultimate limit here below 100% of all revenues eventually going to the State.
Sliding down the Laffer curve. Wheeeee!
Someting like the gestapo.
Was previously run by a Carol Migden