I was not aware of the tax increase proposals you mentioned.

The Demonrats have so many tax increase and new tax proposals that I cannot keep up with all of them.

There’s a whole PILE of bills in the CA legislature to raise taxes. Included is the threat to reinstitute a CA estate tax — on steroids. We repealed it (technically an “inheritance tax”) in about 1980 with a prop.

Also there’s a bill to raise our huge 13.3% “soak the rich” CA income tax another full percentage point. Sooner or later, the rich will get the message. It’s a CLEAR message. We HATE rich people in the Golden State!

HOH BOY!

Look on the bright side, Richard. The Demorats are about to jack up the tax on diesel 20 cents a gallon and gasoline 15 cents a gallon and raise the vehicle license tax and force us to pay a new tax on all vehicles sold in the state, yet no one seems to be paying attention to this.

How many more firms will leave the state because of this? A lot more than one football team.

That departing company is (currently) known as the Oakland Raiders. Soon to be known as the Las Vegas Raiders. Or perhaps the Nevada Raiders.

One aspect seldom mentioned is the dramatic change in the Oakland players’ state income tax. But the zero percent Nevada state income tax will make recruiting high quality free agents much easier for the Raiders than the current “enticement” of paying a 13.3% California state income tax. Moreover, rich young men would doubtless prefer to be in glitzy Las Vegas than in decaying Oakland.

And let us not forget the 0% Nevada CORPORATE state income tax. The CA corporate income tax is 8.8% — highest west of the Mississippi (except Alaska).

Yeah, the Raiders will get a spiffy new Las Vegas stadium largely at taxpayer expense. But old stadium or new, the Oakland Raiders currently have almost the entire upper tier of their Oakland stadium empty. Local people simply can’t afford to go to the games. Those that CAN afford such games too often go watch the San Francisco 49ers.

The press will make much of the taxpayer subsidies, and that’s just fine with me. I’m adamantly opposed to taxpayers subsidizing millionaires and billionaires. But I think that perhaps the press will miss the more fundamental factor that, year after year, the players and owners will keep (net) a lot more of their salaries and profits in Nevada than in California.