New in PJ Media:
It really is a lovely place, California, but it’s so disastrously misgoverned now that the Left has gained total control over the state that it’s no surprise that people want to flee it as quickly as they can. Now, however, it turns out that the Eagles’ Don Henley and Glenn Frey saw something coming that the rest of the world missed: in their notorious 1977 song “Hotel California,” they say: “You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave.”
That wasn’t just some nightmare scenario of the coked-out beautiful people in Malibu; it was a foretaste of a new proposal from California’s Marxist party, a.k.a. the Democrats. You can hate California’s nanny-state socialism, high taxes, rampant homelessness, and ever-rising crime, but if you’ve ever lived there, you could be subsidizing it all for the rest of your life. Yes, even if you escape.
Fox News reported Monday that “California lawmakers are pushing legislation that would impose a new tax on the state’s wealthiest residents — even if they’ve already moved to another part of the country.” So you see, if you are unfortunate enough to be living in San Francisco and don’t want to be made to finance the city’s insane new scheme to give five million dollars in “reparations” to its black residents, it may already be too late to dodge that particular socialist bullet. You can check out and go to Idaho, or Arizona, or even sunny, free, DeSantis-ruled but incomparably more humid Florida, but the California taxman will hunt you down and knock on your door anyway. You can check out, my friend, but no, you can never leave.
Assemblyman Alex Lee, whom Fox News identifies as a “progressive Democrat,” as if we might have mistaken him for an America-First patriot, “last week introduced a bill in the California State Legislature that would impose an extra annual 1.5% tax on those with a ‘worldwide net worth’ above $1 billion, starting as early as January 2024.” See, ex-Californians? You have nothing, nothing whatsoever, to worry about. If you’re not a billionaire, you don’t have the slightest reason to worry about rogue agents from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration breaking down your front door at 4 a.m. and frog-marching you to the nearest ATM so you can do your bit to fund their latest mad scheme to confiscate even more of the dwindling number of remaining Californians’ hard-earned dough. You’re free and clear, no? No.
For one thing, you’re a lot closer to being a billionaire than you might think, but not in a good way. If Old Joe Biden’s inflation keeps up or (God forbid) accelerates, we may be walking around with wheelbarrows of cash to buy a loaf of bread, like in those old pictures from the Weimar Republic.
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somehistory says
I read that report. If they voted these guys in, surely they will approve of paying and paying until their toes point up and the worms are busy. And Florida doesn’t want any of those people cluttering things and trying to make a CA on the east coast.
You, Mr. Spencer, have written what I was thinking. It won’t just be the filthy rich who are forced to pay people for being Black; it will be like sales tax…everyone pays the same, no matter how poor.
Glenn Beck had some very interesting facts about slavery, the history that the idiot tried to erase with her “project,” Jamestown and Plymouth. His guest gave some Black history….the three Blacks who had major influence on the Revolutionary War to free people from Great Britian’s king and religious tyranny. And they reminded all who listened about the Johnson guy, Black, who owned slaves in the U.S.
The program: “Debunking Outrageous LIES from the New Hulu Series, ‘The 1619 Project’ | Ep 247”
Hank says
Fox News reported Monday that “California lawmakers are pushing legislation that would impose a new tax on the state’s wealthiest residents — even if they’ve already moved to another part of the country.”
Nuts.Socialism/Marxism is very creative when inventing new taxes.
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
“People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.”
“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
— Ronald Reagan
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
All the streets are brown, and the sky is grey
Be careful where you walk, especially by the bay
No one’s safe and warm, living in LA
California Dreamin’, has met its dying day
Linde B. says
Excellent poem, “NoLibsWelcomeHere”. I vacationed in CA in 1997 and in 2009. Things became very bad after that in many places in CA. Soooo sad. (Makes me very mad.)
Westman says
The idea that such a law, the equivalent of a CA Mafia Protection Racket, would be successful and that other states would enforce it is absurd – like CA uber-liberals. The SCOTUS would strike it down and if it didn’t the CA state “collectors” would “disappear” in other states.
Allowing the proposed law would inflate the authority of CA to the federal level, effectively creating a new arm of the IRS. CA politicians have always had an inflated view of themselves but they must now be imagining Godship. Apparently the use of mind-bending drugs has become too common.
somehistory says
Agreed. The doj would need to use RICO to round them all up and prosecute for extortion.
Just think, though, nance …as biden calls her…pelosi and her hubby and son would be taxed for this as would other rich and dirty pols there…if the law was actually enforced equally.
Scotsman48 says
FYI the song Hotel California is NOT about California and the Hotel they sang about is in Baja California and for those of you unfamiliar with the area that’s in Mexico.
Baja is the Spanish word for Lower, so Lower California, Mexico and NOT America.
If a Californian, as I once was in San Francisco, born in Scotland and my wife being from LA, I left her and California in the early 1990s and today my Drivers License is not from California and I dont even live anywhere the USA these days so how are they gonna Tax me just because I lived there throughout the 1980s.
Even living the Hills of CA would bad as they can find you if you have a Credit/ATM Card a Phone or GPS in your Car… Nowhere to hide in America anymore. or anywhere for that matter.
It was great in my days there but now, no thanks.
OLD GUY says
Funny how it is always about the MONEY. Maybe if our GOVERNMENTS was held responsible for the SPENDING of ourTAX DOLLARS they would not be so high.
Funny how they can track every $600. transaction I make but can’t keep track of the million/billion dollar transactions they spend.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
What is the constitutionality of such a law? If someone leaves California, how can that state still tax them beyond the time they left?