TAXES can work wonders!

[nikto]

11. That's a good point

Did you mean tax cuts instead of increases?
Context seemed to indicate that.

The taxes that were imposed were quite modest, IMO. That was part of my point.

With another degree of taxation that still would be doable,
most cuts would have been unnecessary.

Personally, I could have handled a bit more tax & been fine.

But CA's policy was still better than most other states.

Imagine what raising the National income tax on yearly incomes above
$300,000 or so could accomplish?
Couple that with an added National sales tax shared by everyone (1% or less) on all items that
affect health negatively, such as high-sugar and high-salt items (candy, snacks, soft drinks,
sweet baked goods, etc) as well as injury-related sports equipment such as baseballs, bats,
hockey pucks and sticks, soccer, volley and basket balls, air guns, bows/arrows, knives of all kinds, etc etc etc.
Then...

Use that money to fund a National Single-Payer HC system which includes Medical/Dental/Vision Care.


Yeah, yeah, I know----
Impossible dream, with the way too many people feel about taxation in America.

I mean, what can ya' do, with taxes bein' worse-than-Hitler and everything.