What if California Democrats voted NO on the Big Five budget plan and instead of this cut-and-fudge budget, they demanded a progressive tax system?

Do you know that in California, someone earning $47k a year pays the same tax rate — 9.3% — as someone earning $1 million a year.

How did we come to this?

Here are the facts. The top two brackets in the CA income tax are:

If your income range is between $47,056 and $1,000,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 9.3%.

If your income range is $1,000,001 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 10.3%.

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Call your legislators, as I have been doing, and do some educating. Quiz the staff. I have found that they do not know this simple fiscal fact about the state budget.

My guess is that most legislators have no idea of this incredible injustice in the tax code. And if they do, what is the harm in letting them know we are wise to their game.

Tell them to stop the class warfare. Restore a progressive income tax in California.

Ask your legislator if he or she supports class warfare. Demand that they vote NO and that they remake our failed tax system.