For the love of God. Just stop.

The facts are in. As of this writing, California, home of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, disruptive change and the nations most “progressive” thought and laws upon closer inspection, reveals itself to actually be the most regressive state in the union. If according to legislator Chad Mayes, poverty is California’s “No. 1 priority” why do you continue to tax the poor and make it increasingly harder for them to get ahead?

California hands out bad news for the sad working saps who make up the bulk of its population on an almost daily basis. Your taxes and fee’s are going up, and it’s not just you. If someone drives an average car valued at $15,000, their monthly car renewal tax cost goes up from $3.94 to $11.08. If they travel across the Bay Bridge to get to work, they better get ready to pay $3 more a day, which assuming a 5 day work-week, comes out to an extra $720 a year. No small change to a person making less than $30,000 a year.

“Ouch”, we say.

California was once affectionately called the Golden State. A place where dreams are made. Now it is a place where dreams go to die by a thousand cuts, one tax at a time.

Repeal The Gas Tax (among other things)

Gas taxes are regressive. It hits the poor harder than the rich who can more easily afford them. So why did the California legislature vote increase the tax on gas by another 12 cents per gallon?

You don’t tax necessities (pssst you tax luxuries). Poor people need get to work by hour-long commute. Drop their kids off at crumbling local schools, buy groceries. All these things require gas. And now it costs more for them to do so.

And get this. The Uber Tax San Francisco just enacted. Not taxing the billion dollar companies themselves, but the people who ride and drive for them. Regression.

I would call all of these measures rank stupidity at best, cruel at worst. If you have any shred of decency you would oppose every one of them, and tell your friends and friends of friends to vote “YES” on prop 6.

Signed,

The People of California