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🗓️ 18 August 2020
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| 0:00.0 | The rich are in the news. |
| 0:01.5 | I love when the richer in the news. |
| 0:03.1 | New York governor Cuomo openly worrying that rich New Yorkers have had enough. |
| 0:07.7 | They won't stay in his high tax, high crime state, even after the virus fades. |
| 0:13.0 | Hint, they're already gone, governor. |
| 0:16.0 | Apparently West Coast Liberals have the same fear. |
| 0:18.8 | Democrat lawmaker introduced a bill that would force rich Californians to pay a wealth |
| 0:23.2 | surtax even if they leave the state. |
| 0:26.6 | State Assemblyman Bob Bonta |
| 0:29.1 | wants to levy the additional tax on Californians worth more than $30 million. |
| 0:34.4 | He claims this would only affect 30,000 people and would supposedly raise $8 billion. |
| 0:40.4 | The kicker, if rich Californians try to avoid the wealth tax by fleeing, they'd still have |
| 0:46.3 | to pay the tax for 10 years. |
| 0:48.4 | The first year after leaving, they'd pay 90% of the tax. |
| 0:51.6 | The tax would decrease by 10% every year after that. |
| 0:54.6 | Assemblyman Bonta says that after all these rich people accumulated their wealth while |
| 0:59.5 | in California, so why shouldn't California tax them after they leave? |
| 1:03.8 | What nerve? |
| 1:05.0 | This brazen plan is theft, its extortion, its punishment all rolled into one. |
| 1:10.6 | And it's pure socialism, which is what the Democrat Party has become. |
| 1:14.1 | If you are successful in life, Democrats see you as a target and a suspect. |
| 1:19.8 | And now they don't even bother trying to hide it. |
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