{"id":11778,"date":"2019-04-11T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2021-07-26T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:32:19","slug":"california-has-become-americas-cannibal-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/california-has-become-americas-cannibal-state\/","title":{"rendered":"California Has Become America\u2019s Cannibal State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state legislature sold that confiscatory tax rate on the idea that it was a temporary fix and would eventually be phased out. No one believed that. California voters, about 40 percent of whom pay no state income taxes, naturally approved the extension of the high rate by an overwhelming margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California recently raised gas taxes by 40 percent and now has the second-highest gas taxes in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California has the ninth-highest combined state and local sales taxes in the country, but its state sales tax of 7.3 percent is America\u2019s highest. As of April 1, California is now applying that high state sales tax to goods that residents buy online from out-of-state sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late 2017, the federal government capped state and local tax deductions at $10,000. For high earners in California, the change effectively almost doubled their state and local taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such high taxes, often targeting a small percentage of the population, may have brought California a budget surplus of more than $20 million. Yet California is never satiated with high new tax rates that bring in additional revenue. It\u2019s always hungry for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/04\/10\/california-has-become-americas-cannibal-state\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness For over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax. The state legislature sold that confiscatory tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1998,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-california-mordida\/","url_meta":{"origin":11778,"position":0},"title":"The California Mordida","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services California now works on the principle of the\u00a0mordida, or \"bite.\" Its government assumes that it can take something extra from residents for the privilege of living in their special state. 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As I looked at the congested traffic on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;California&quot;","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/california\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6467,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-myth-of-a-california-renaissance\/","url_meta":{"origin":11778,"position":2},"title":"The Myth of a California Renaissance","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sacramento's strategy for recovery is more taxes, more regulation, and more government. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online\u00a0 Are the recent raves about a new California renaissance true? 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At both the California State University and University of California multi-campus systems, tuition hikes in recent years have far exceeded the national average.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;California&quot;","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/california\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11690,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-rendezvous-with-reality\/","url_meta":{"origin":11778,"position":4},"title":"California\u2019s Rendezvous With Reality","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Californians brag that their state is the world\u2019s fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods. Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley are cited as permanent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;California&quot;","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/california\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8915,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/california-leading-from-behind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11778,"position":5},"title":"California, Leading from Behind","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online California has given us three new truths about government. One, the higher that taxes rise, the worse\u00a0state services become. Two, the worse a natural disaster hits, the more the state contributes to its havoc. 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