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Completely tone deaf proposal in the context of 1) Recent election where every single tax measure was defeated in the ballot box, and even left measures such as anti-Prop 22 and rent control was defeated (read the room ?) 2) CA government just had a $15bn surplus in a recession year and 3) Context of COVID and migration. This bill is going nowhere

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Can't have your cake and eat it too. If you insist on making not-Democrats extinct at the State, County and Municipal level, you should expect follow-through.

YOU voted in single party rule in CA. Frankly I'm amazed at how little they have exercised their monopoly...they have the votes to pass stuff like this by the hour.

California budget bills must be balanced (prop 58) and taxes increases can only pass via supermajority vote (and prop 25 expanded the definition of taxes).

It takes a monopoly just to get basic things done in this state.

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