When they pay obscene amounts of money to prevent paying taxes, or break unions, or disenfranchise voters, it’s because they calculate that the obscene amount of money is less than what they’d expend otherwise.
They may spend more in fighting it than they would in paying tax, but to avoid paying tax is a part of their identity
I’m proud to pay tax. I want to make my society better. I was rich once, and I could have paid less tax, but I didn’t avoid it because I knew that arseholes like these were making the world worse, and I wasn’t going to be a part of the problem
Honestly - in the event that this nature fails, California should just unleash a barrage of similar legislation like this, year after year. Eventually it would end up cheaper to just pay the taxes than continually fight against it.
When they pay obscene amounts of money to prevent paying taxes, or break unions, or disenfranchise voters, it’s because they calculate that the obscene amount of money is less than what they’d expend otherwise.
Don’t forget their ego
They may spend more in fighting it than they would in paying tax, but to avoid paying tax is a part of their identity
I’m proud to pay tax. I want to make my society better. I was rich once, and I could have paid less tax, but I didn’t avoid it because I knew that arseholes like these were making the world worse, and I wasn’t going to be a part of the problem
Honestly - in the event that this nature fails, California should just unleash a barrage of similar legislation like this, year after year. Eventually it would end up cheaper to just pay the taxes than continually fight against it.
That would make the California GOP rich…