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California already has a 1% income tax allocated just to mental health, and has collected $7.4 billion so far just from this tax[0]. How is that working? [0] h

• rubicon33 5y ago
  Our government, either through corruption or incompetence, can somehow manage to spend billions in tax payer dollars with very little to show for it. When I advocate for something like a mental health program, it assumes a government which is functional enough to actually implement it. What we currently have here in CA couldn't be further from that.
  • jason0597 5y ago
    Well, California is literally a single party state
  • chii 5y ago
    which is why further taxation or money collection in the hope of solving the problem is not going to work.
• imtringued 5y ago
  They should get rid of that income tax and tax land more.
• settrans 5y ago
  Correcting myself: California has corrected $7.4 billion _as of 2011_, after only six years of operation. Note that the tax is not indexed to inflation: already, the million-dollar threshold is worth only $715k in 2005 dollars. After another ~17 years at 2% inflation, the same tax will be charged on earners of $500k+ in 2005 dollars.