They did a really good job on ads. Don’t look up how much they spent just on fooling the population.
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I think the rejection is pretty straightforward... It's a lack of trust. California doesn't have a revenue problem; it's got a spending problem. When you couple that with some well known cases of "taxes on the wealthy" morphing into taxes on the ordinary over time (like AMT), it makes voters suspicious that this proposition was actually for it's stated purpose, and even though slippery slopes are a logical fallacy, people don't always employ logic when voting.
There are other factors too of course, but the bill's sponsors failed to overcome the general distrust voters have of their elected officials and California tax authorities.
Yeah, well said. It will take a lot to get Californian voters to overcome their distrust of their tax collectors
It definitely does have a revenue problem, trumps OBBB gutted federal funding for medi-cal and cal-fresh and the state can't cover those gaps without more tax revenue.
Unless you want to say that food and healthcare for the poor are "spending problems"