Following your point to it’s logical end, how would they enforce this? How far could they go in raising taxes? How high and what happens when people simply throw up their hands and leave the area as is happening now? Would the judge then prohibit a person from moving? Attach his bank account, what?
Where does it end before there is a real revolution in this country?
The power to raise taxes lies strictly with the legislature, State or Federal. A judge can “order” anything he likes but whether it gets done3 is another thing entirely.
Well, that is an excellent question, how will it be enforced. When the luxury tax on yachts was passed in 1990, people simple bought yachts in foreign countries and registered them in other countries. The tax raised almost no revenue.
A judge might attach a bank account but if she or he did you would see a massive flight of capital outside the U.S.
in a nano second.