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You want to know what kind of damage 34 years of Democratic majorities in a state legislature can cause – especially if you combine them with the last five years under a Democratic Governor? We have a 9.3 percent top income tax bracket that starts at $75,000 AND an 8 ¾ percent sales tax – and we still keep running out of money. We have the lowest credit rating of any state in the country – in fact, now 2 notches below the next lowest state and are poised to borrow $15 billion more. And we are watching the first domestic outmigration of population in our history.

The natural condition of mankind is to crave freedom, to demand freedom, and ultimately to fight for freedom. The further we stray from those principles, the more freedom that we unwittingly surrender, the greater the pressure grows to take that freedom back.

And that is what is today happening in California. It is what you have seen happen in this nation whenever we have lost our way. And consider this, (especially those who consider themselves practical, pragmatic politicians). The closer we Republicans have adhered to this central idea – freedom – the more our party has united and the stronger we have been and the better we have done. And the closer the Democrats have adhered to THEIR central theme – authoritarianism (and the confiscatory taxes, reckless spending and borrowing, the burdensome regulations, and favoritism and corruption that always accompanies it)-- the more they have fragmented and ultimately failed.

For a single person, the 9.3% tax rate starts at a particularly startling $37,500. He must have been talking about a couple.

Think about that, though, $37,500 is about the median income of the state, so almost everyone single here pays at least a little tax at that top rate.

Amazing.

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