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by swang720 2071 days ago
The whole point of a progressive tax system is to distribute wealth from the wealthy to the poor. A very small percentage of the population controls the vast majority of the wealth in this country. I'd argue that the wealthy (myself included) should be paying _more_ taxes.

With that said, in California, there's a lot of problems that can't be solved by simply throwing more money at it -- for instance, homelessness.