Gavin Newsom flips reality on Cali taxes, NY Times – Latest News
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We say: Not even close: California’s high income-tax charge, 14.4%, is America’s highest. Texas and Florida have no income tax. Adding in property and gross sales taxes, WalletHub ranks Cali’s tax burden fourth-highest, Texas’ fortieth and Florida’s forty fifth. Also together with company and different taxes, the Tax Foundation places Cali’s taxes third-highest, Texas’ forty fourth and Florida’s forty sixth.
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“Paul R. Ehrlich . . . faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.” — NY Times, Sunday
We say: Premature? How about incorrect? On all of them, beginning along with his 1968 e book “The Population Bomb.” Rising populations meant 4 billion people would starve to death by 2000, he mentioned; actually the worldwide head-count doubled, with much less starvation. The world would see pervasive “scarcity,” he insisted; it truly enjoys unprecedented abundance. Because it shares his biases, the Times received’t admit it — however Ehrlich’s predictions had been the other of the reality.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, 2022: “[Republicans should] jump on a bus and head down to Florida . . . Because you don’t represent our values.”
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Hochul, March 11: “[Millionaires should] go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home. Because our tax base has been eroded.”
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We say: Wealthy of us and GOPers have fled partly as a result of New York’s climate lunacy, pro-crime legal guidelines, and, yes, nation-leading tax charges didn’t characterize their values. Now she’s observed that her “tax base has been eroded”? Hmm: Maybe she ought to give people causes to return back — like locked-up criminals, climate sanity and decrease taxes.
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“Muslim Americans are confronting a new surge of hateful rhetoric.” — PBS News, Monday
We say: Let’s depend hateful actions: Islamic terrorists simply rammed a synagogue in Michigan, tossed IEDs in Manhattan, killed a prof and wounded college students in Virginia and shot up innocents in Austin, Texas. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy discovered a 34% spike in already-raging antisemitism simply because the Iran conflict began. But PBS chooses to focus on Islamophobia, at the same time as a lot of it’s merely criticism of the terrorists.
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