[Redcloak]

"...the fate of California services rests disproportionately in the well-being of the top 10 percent of California taxpayers."

Do my eyes deceive me? Does he actually "get it"?!?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am reserving judgement!

[absalom01]

No, he does not 'get it' the way you mean. Read down through the article. What they're talking about is finding new sources of tax revenue -- the example given is a tax on 'services' -- what the Euros call 'Value-added taxes'. This has been the ambition of a certain contingent of the Democrat party for quite a while, and this is only the latest excuse to push the idea.

While we're on this topic...the LA area FReepers had a 'meat space' meeting this week, and RonDog asked the question "what would you like to get out of the FRnetwork?" Had I been clever enough at the time, I'd have replied "let's lead the fight against Gray's tax increases this year".
So, I'm saying it now.
Sorry for editorializing on your time Redcloak, but you kinda asked.

[SteveH]

Whether or not Davis "gets it", it is almost irrelevant since the universal mantra of liberals is "we are the richest nation on earth, so we should be able to afford xxx" (where "xxx" can literally be anything), along with "corporations and the rich own almost the entire country, so they should be taxed more than the poor and working people" (where "rich" is loosely and somewhat arbitrarily defined as anyone who makes over a public school teacher's salary). I think it is a calculated good-cop bad-cop ploy to spread the blame. He can afford it at the moment because he has just come off the winner of a 4 year election cycle. So the bad cop that is going to say not-so-quickly is the legislature or the Democrat local leaders, and Davis is just giving some cover fire for them.

Sorry to play the cynic here... just considering Davis' penchant for political slicksterism, etc...

[Smedley]

Do my eyes deceive me? Does he actually "get it"?!?

I actually think that he understands the dilemma of feeding off the rich. The real interesting thing is what will Davis propose as a solution?

Higher taxes on the lower and middle income earners?

Reduction in spending?

Higher capital gains taxes?