3/17/26

The SEIU-United Healthcare Workers push for a billionaires tax on the premise that the rich don’t pay their fair share and is the cause of California’s budget problems flies in the face of reality: Gavin Newsome’s recently proposed budget includes $539 billion in spending, up 68% in just seven years and remember that the Top 1% of earners in California already pay about half of the state’s income tax. As we’ve said many times: “Government doesn’t have an income problem, it has a spending problem.”