Who believes Newsom’s tax whopper? – Latest News
The sky is brown and the dust is blue.
Gavin Newsom may as properly have mentioned that, when he claimed on Sunday that California’s taxes are decrease than these in Texas and Florida.
Texas “taxes poor folks more than we tax our richest,” Newsom instructed the South by Southwest convention in Austin. “… Florida is the other regressive tax state. Your middle class pays more taxes in Texas than our middle class in California.”
Gavin Newsom claimed on Sunday that California’s taxes are decrease than these in Texas and Florida. SXSW Conference & Festivals through Getty Images
Texas “taxes poor folks more than we tax our richest,” Newsom instructed the South by Southwest convention in Austin. Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP
What now?
The gov then doubled down on X, writing, “Fox News refuses to report the truth: Texas and Florida are the REAL high-tax states.”
Oh pricey.
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The Runaway Gov, who’s been on the street pitching himself/his memoir, ought to return to Earth –– and to Sacramento, the place his day job waits.
“This is just a blatant, verifiable falsehood,” Tom Bevan, president of RealClearPolitics, wrote on X of the gov’s tax boast. “Here’s a Wallethub 2025 analysis of the overall tax burden by state.”
That research exhibits California is the fourth-highest taxed of the 50 states, with Texas rating fortieth and Florida forty fifth.
The Runaway Gov, who’s been on the street pitching himself/his memoir, ought to return to Earth. Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP
So how and why has Newsom dished a whopper?
He’s relying, maybe, on a 2024 evaluation on “tax inequality” by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
That research dinged purple states as a result of low-income taxpayers there will pay a bigger share of their incomes towards taxes (gross sales, property, income) than wealthier taxpayers do.
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That doesn’t imply poor and middle-income residents are paying “more taxes” in purple states than in California, of course, as Newsom contends.
But the gov’s insistent. Why?
Does he assume he can muddy the tax concern, and blunt criticism of the exodus out of California beneath his watch?
Does he need a distraction from the various crises besetting the Golden State?
Does he assume he can muddy the tax concern, and blunt criticism of the exodus out of California beneath his watch? Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP
Or is that this simply Newsom, the perpetual self-promotion machine, making fixed headlines –– nonetheless inane –– to propel his ’28 presidential bid?
It might be he’s determined to seek out some favorable comparability between his insurance policies and people of purple states, as people flee California in each trickles (billionaires) and streams (everybody else) for friendlier locations to dwell, work, pay taxes and raise households.
Under Newsom, our state has misplaced not less than 200,000 residents simply because the 2020 Census, per the Public Policy Institute of California.
Given that actuality, the gov’s tax declare “flies in the face of people’s revealed preferences,” as Jared Walczak, a fellow on the DC-based Tax Foundation adroitly put it.
In sum: To sell his file to a skeptical nation, the gov has to invert actuality.
So in Gavin Newsom’s world, the sky is brown.
