Care for Poor deals Death Blow to State of California
— There Fixed It —
Coming Soon to a Country near you
Yep. As much as I like to see spending cuts, think how much lower taxes would be if they were retargeted from the rich to the poor. If you tax something, you get less of it, and this works with taxing the “poor” as well — they’ll go elsewhere.
Reducing the CA sales tax rate from 8.25% on limited items to 3% on everything — including groceries, rents, medicine, and all other services — would actually raise more tax revenue while making CA a better place to live for people with disposable income and less friendly to the freeloaders. We could also reverse the shift to online out-of-state purchases by reducing the tax on local brick and mortar sales from 8.25% down to 3%.