Posted on 08/19/2020 8:32:08 PM PDT by hsmomx3
PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court on August 19 rejected a lower court ruling and restored a citizen’s initiative that would raise taxes on the wealthy to help boost education funding to the ballot.
The unanimous ruling is a major victory for proponents of the initiative who turned in signatures from more than 400,000 voters to qualify it for the ballot. The Secretary of State’s office has not yet completed its review of those signatures to determine if it will go before voters on November 3.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox10phoenix.com ...
Heh, or maybe you get another exodus. Thanks for sending more ex-Californians our direction.
I know the article talks about raising taxes on higher incomes but we always see an increase on our property taxes for school. They should be refunded for the time kids were not able to attend school.
that was a hard read...
This is how CA started their march to Socialism back 25 years ago.
I make it a point to vote for candidates whose signs are welcome in front of gun shops.
I also make it a point to vote for opposite of what teachers are pushing.
3.5% surcharge on incomes over $250k individuals and $500k couples
Is the “surcharge” before deductions as in gross income?
That is child play in California.
There are some bills currently going through the legislature that would raise the top income tax bracket to 16% plus they want to install a first in the nation wealth tax with a 10 year retroactive clause. Meaning if you leave the state when the wealth tax passes you’re still on the hook to California for another 10 years.
Or if you left California 3 years ago, you suddenly owe California the wealth tax for another 7 years! How can this possibly be constitutional is beyond me. The tax kicks in if you have over $15 million in assets (single filer) or $30 million for joint filers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From related threads…
Regarding educational funding for example, President Thomas Jefferson had indicated, in a State of the Union address, that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before Congress could dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schooling, something that the states have never done.
"On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
Justice Joseph Story later reflected on Jefferson’s words, emphasizing that Congress has no business sticking its big nose (my wording) into intrastate schooling.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
Justice Brandeis later put it this way about the "laboratories of democracy," the unique powers of the sovereign states to serve the people, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government, ect.
So why are patriots now being oppressed under the boots of the unconstitutionally big federal government, the states continually seeking “federal” funding, better thought of as state revenues stolen by the vote-buying federal government, to keep their states operating?
Using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” the excerpt below from Wickard shows what was left of the defense of 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state sovereignty by the last of state sovereignty-respecting majority justices in United States v. Butler, FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices blatantly ignoring the reasonable Butler interpretation of 10A when they scandalously decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor imo.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
The remedy for constitutionally failed federal government…
Patriots need to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the corrupt federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
More specifically, patriots need to send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to party with Uncle Sam's "unlimited credit card."" —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"It’s politically correct, under the Democratic Party and its tyrant judges, to use your voting power to make your fellow citizens involuntary servants." —me
"The Democratic elite define a "pro-choice" democracy as being able to vote for your preferred master." —me
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
It is probably whatever one produces the most in taxes.
Once, long ago, OP’s read the article before posting.
That’s gotta be ex post facto. Hey, you know how you moved out five years ago and paid all the taxes that were due? Well, we just passed a new law that says you now owe more money! From when you lived in our jurisdiction. Five years before we passed the law. Now pay up.
Once the Left figured out that with initiatives, if you dump enough money into them, you can literally get ANYTHING passed. Combine that with Soros and others with the money, and the ‘public vote’ just becomes a formality.
I’m just glad that we don’t have ‘initiatives’ in Texas.
I wonder what the response would be if you replaced “Rich” with “Latino” or “Black”.
A minority will always lose with an amoral public.
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