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We're going to get into the various tax increases that California Democrat
politicians have cooked up.
Try to get more of your money.
And these sneaky SOBs are literally hiding the tax increases on the
ballot and using false and misleading and deceptive titles to con you
and devoting your money away.
This is we literally are looking at fraud.
And of course, the judges in the state of California, they benefit
from it because they're all liberal judges and they like their big
salary hikes and pension spikes.
So they've been colluding with the political establishment.
The billionaires don't care.
Oh, wait a minute.
Now they somewhat care because there's a tax specifically going after them,
at least in round one.
But don't kid yourself when they say it's a billionaire's tax.
No, no, no, it's in everybody's tax.
They're coming for you.
So I'm going to go through the list of tax increases that they're cooking up.
But more importantly, I'm going to explain how you can help stop them.
Go to the website electionguideCalifornia.org for our full voter guide.
Every single county and it does link up to this discussion on tax
increases.
One of the things that people like about our voter guide at reform
California is that we give you a plain English description of what the
ballot measures actually do.
And we do the red flag on all the tax increases.
So there's over 300 local initiatives on the ballot statewide in the June
primary.
And we expect there will be close to 500 initiatives on the local ballot
in the general election of the 200 plus that we have right now,
300 right now right now in the primary 90 primary ballot measures
across the state are tax increases.
Most of them hidden with deceptive titles.
So we flagged all 90.
The one that I think is the most egregious is right here in Southern California
measure ER like the show ER.
It is a massive sales tax increase, which is a regressive tax.
It hurts working families, though, the hardest, the low income residents,
the hardest and it's nothing more than a backfill.
Oh, they say Trump caused us to put the tax increase on the ballot.
Trump took our money.
No, that's a lie.
Karen Basura and all the other local Democrats that run the show in L.A.
County have allowed wasteful spending.
They've given away salary hikes and pension spikes to the government unions.
They have lined the pockets of developers and all sorts of other campaign
contributors.
They have bloated the bureaucracy.
They have all these DEI staffers running around.
They are spending exponentially more money even though their population has declined.
They have outstripped inflation.
And they still can't make ends meet.
So they have measure ER on the ballot and they describe it as a measure
to prevent people from losing health coverage.
They can easily prevent people from losing health coverage if you just stop building
that overpass for the wildlife.
And if you would just thin the herd when it comes to government employees,
what's on the ballot in November is truly scary.
First and foremost, if the Democrats keep their supermajority,
there are tax increases that are not even on the ballot that are going to happen.
And so the only way you stop these tax increases is by voting out
Democrat assembly members and state senators by breaking the supermajority.
They don't have two thirds vote in Sacramento.
They can't enact these taxes.
The number one tax that they're going after to raise to impose on Californians.
It's not the billionaire's tax.
That's on the ballot.
That'll be a ballot measure we'll talk about in a moment.
No, no, no, no.
They want to impose.
Are you ready for it?
A mileage tax.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, they already got the gas tax.
They already got the car tax.
Now they want a mileage tax six to nine cents per mile.
The average driver drives it, drives about 15,000 miles a year.
At six cents, that's nine hundred dollars.
That's on top of gas tax and car tax.
A typical two car family in Southern California will have to pay about
when you add car tax and gas tax to the mileage tax.
Assuming both cars just do 15,000 miles and some of the drivers in California do more than 15,000 a year.
You're talking about $4,500 just to pay taxes for the privilege of driving on crappy roads.
The car, we need to fix the roads.
We need a mileage tax to fix the roads.
You're not fixing them with the gas tax.
The car will cast tax revenues are dropping because of electric vehicles.
Lie, the budget numbers are clear.
We have not seen a drop in gas tax revenues because they keep increasing the gas tax.
So the revenues have not gone away.
They want the mileage tax because they just want your money and they will lie, cheat and steal in order to get it.
And they want to do a two thirds vote in the assembly and the state Senate to impose that.
They're also looking at a payroll tax and exit tax.
Another income tax.
They already have the highest utility taxes in the nation.
All of these taxes are coming down.
If the Democrats maintain their super majority.
Now what's on the ballot?
They have a measure to extend an income tax hike that has really caused people to move out of the state of California.
Oh, I'm not talking about the billionaires tax.
We're going to get to that in a minute.
And it's not the billionaires tax.
It's the everybody's tax.
Start calling it what it is and everybody's savings tax.
But what are the measures on the ballot this November?
Would extend the highest income tax rates in the nation indefinitely?
There's no such thing as a temporary tax you realize that.
So this would extend what they call the temporary tax some seven or eight years ago.
That has resulted in top earners fleeing California.
And at the even the suggestion of a billionaires tax.
A whole bunch of other top earners have fled California.
The top 1% of income tax filers in California.
Account for 38% of all income tax paid.
Think about that.
Top 1% of income tax filers produce 38% of all income tax revenues.
You lose just a couple of those people and it's a sucker punched to the budget.
Democrats always say we don't have enough money in our budget to give out the salary hikes
and the pension spikes and to grow the bureaucracy to line the pockets of our special interest
masters the contributors.
So we need to raise taxes for more money so that we can give it away.
Well you raise the tax rate and what happens?
People who have the ability leave.
And so you actually don't get more revenue.
You end up getting ready wait for it less revenue.
It's like a death spiral that these people are in.
They don't even realize it.
And who remains?
People who are poor and are using government services more.
The people who rely on government welfare are the ones that are left in California.
The people who are providing the tax increment to support the programs
they're packing their bags and leaving.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
It is the sick death spiral of California state budget.
Poverty.
That's our future.
Financial collapse.
That's our future.
Not more revenue.
Not prosperity.
Absolute disaster.
Coming up.
I'm talking about the billionaire's tax.
What it really is.
How it would impact you and how we can block it.
Even if it gets a majority of votes.
Does November.
Do you know that we can actually stop it?
Even if it gets a majority of votes and we got a plan.
That's right.
As Carl D'Amio fills in for John.
You're listening to KFI AM640 on demand.
Carl D'Amio.
Sitting in for John Cobalt on KFI AM640 and on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Through five o'clock.
We are talking about various tax increases that California politicians are trying to impose on you.
A lot of them are imposed at the ballot on the ballot with deceptive titles.
So get that voter guide that we publish.
The plain English voter guide at electionguidecalfonia.org and share it with your friends and family.
That's electionguidecalfonia.org.
One way to stop the tax increases.
Break the Democrat supermajority in Sacramento.
By voting out your state assembly member or your state senator.
They're going to try to do a mileage tax.
That's coming literally in the next year and a half.
They are already authorized to study.
They don't study something they're not going to do.
They look at payroll tax increases which means less jobs.
They want an income tax increase.
They want exit taxes.
They want also to throw a bunch of fees on your utility bills.
I'm fighting of an insurance tax that they're putting on.
Oh yeah.
The insurance tax killing us.
And they want another one on top of that.
But now they've got something on the ballot.
In this November, they've got one measure to extend the income tax hike.
Hopefully we vote that down.
But another measure would create a whole new form of taxation called a wealth tax.
This is what's inside the billionaires tax initiative.
But it's not the billionaires tax initiative.
It's the everybody tax initiative.
It creates this wealth tax.
And what is that?
Well, it's a socialist dream.
The income tax that you're familiar with is a tax on what you earn.
A sales tax is a tax on what you spend.
Gas tax is a specific type of tax on a product you buy on top of the sales tax.
Property tax, you already pay that every year.
In fact, we pay the highest property taxes in most states in the nation because
well, our property values are so high, even with prop 13.
But the wealth tax is a tax on what you have saved.
What is your home value today?
You'll be paying a tax on that even though you haven't realized your value.
You haven't sold your home.
But they're going to come and say, well,
we think that if you sold your home in this market,
you'd get this amount of money.
So we're going to tax you on that.
It's a tax on your 401k and any stocks that you own.
It's a tax on your savings account.
You're checking account.
Any cash you might stash in your mattress.
So I call it not a wealth tax.
It's a savings tax.
But you know what, the lying greedy politicians say,
we're not going to try to tax the middle class.
Only the super rich are going to pay this tax, really.
Think back to the 1910s.
I know, you know, back when Nancy Pelosi was reaching her retirement age.
Most of us weren't here in the 1910s,
but the historians will verify what I'm saying is true.
The politicians amended the U.S. Constitution
to allow the federal government to impose for the first time ever an income tax.
And what did they say back then?
Well, Nancy Pelosi went on the stump and she said,
it's only for the rich.
Everyone pays the income tax today.
So when they say a savings tax is only for the billionaires or the super wealthy,
nope, they're coming for you.
In fact, there's a provision inside the initiative.
The billionaires tax has a provision that says,
at any time, the legislature with a two thirds vote,
can apply the wealth tax to anyone else.
You don't say.
And that's what they're after.
That's what they've wanted all along.
When they say they're not going to tax you, run.
They are lying.
These people make liars, cheats, and thieves look honorable.
So how do we stop them?
Well, we've got a couple ways to stop them.
One, we can vote it down, but you know what?
People like to bang up on billionaires.
Billionaires bad.
Yes, stick it to them.
So I'm not so sure that this initiative won't pass.
I think actually it passes.
Oh, but hold on a second.
Even if it passes, we've got a plan to stop it.
No, no, it's not going to court and begging a liberal judge to
overturn the will of the voters.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You see, we help collect signatures on two initiatives.
The savings tax, stop the savings tax initiative,
which goes under a couple of different names,
like to protect the retirement initiative,
but it's basically stop the savings tax.
That's the first initiative.
The second initiative is audit special taxes.
Both of these initiatives will likely be on the November ballot
at the same time as the billionaires tax.
And coming up, I'll tell you what is inside those initiatives that will
cancel out any wealth tax or savings tax from being applied to you.
All that and more coming up is Carl DeMille fills in for John Cobalt.
You're listening to KFI AM640 on demand.
We're talking about tax increases.
There's a bunch of them on the ballot.
But recognize when you're voting for a Democrat member of the state assembly
of the state senate, you're literally voting for a tax increase.
Because as long as they have a super majority,
two thirds of the senate in the house, the assembly,
they can administratively impose a tax increase on you.
The gas tax that we are living under right now that goes up every single year,
the highest in the nation, the cap and trade tax,
the mandates on our electricity, all of the taxes, the car tax,
all were done through the legislature, not a vote of the people.
As long as they have a super majority, they can tax the hell out of you and they will.
But when it comes to ballot measures,
that's when we have to make sure people get that plain English voter guide,
electionguidecalifornia.org, electionguidecalifornia.org,
so they know where the tax increases are hidden, so they can vote them down.
And we got to go on the offense.
And that's what we're doing to defeat the wealth tax,
the savings tax that's contained in the so-called
billionaires initiative.
It's an everybody's initiative, not a billionaires initiative.
We have helped a coalition of a variety of groups put two good government initiatives on the ballot.
And it's all about tax reform, but it also
kills two birds with one stone.
It not only reforms taxes to hold government accountable,
but it also kicks the billionaires tax out, the savings tax out.
So the first initiative does exactly that directly.
It's titled Protect Retirement Savings.
And it would eliminate any ability to tax
your equity, your savings.
The second initiative says audit special taxes.
And it requires that whenever a special tax is levied like a savings tax,
when it goes on the ballot, it must first
include an audit of the fund that would receive the revenue.
To make sure that, well, are we giving a fund
revenue, more revenue, a tax increase that, well, it hasn't been properly spent as is.
Where's the previous money gone?
Are politicians siphoning the money off?
I'd love to have an audit special tax on the gas tax.
That would be suspended in an instant because they've been siphoning the money off the gas taxes
for so many years.
That's why our roads are so crappy.
So these two initiatives are both likely to qualify for the ballot because we've submitted
our signatures this week.
It'll be on the same ballot as the billionaires tax.
Let's suppose all three initiatives pass.
What then happens is if there's any initiative that conflicts with the other initiative,
and in this case, the first initiative that I told you about says you can't do a savings tax,
so that would eliminate the billionaires tax.
The second initiative says if you're going to do a special tax like the billionaires tax,
you must first audit the fund that would receive the revenue.
That did not happen here.
And the audit special taxes initiative says this initiative shall apply to any other
tax increase on the same ballot.
So how do you sort out conflicting measures?
If either of our two initiatives get one more vote statewide than the billionaires tax,
even if they all get a majority vote,
if our initiative audit special taxes, which has like 70% support,
gets 70%.
And the billionaires tax gets 51%.
The billionaires tax is dead.
And the audit special taxes initiative, it passes.
And it would be wonderful to actually get audit special taxes enacted,
because there's a whole bunch of special taxes out there that need to be audited.
We need to make it harder, not easier, for politicians to get our money.
We need to hold them accountable for the money they've already been given,
because you know damn well that they have siphoned it off and wasted it.
The other initiative that we are going on the offense on is save prop 13.
This is an initiative that was drafted by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association,
my good friend John Coupal.
And it does a number of important things.
Number one, it restores the two thirds vote to enact local tax hikes.
That's a game changer, because right now it's a majority vote,
because the politicians and the judges in the state colluded and opened up
loopholes in prop 13.
We need to close the loopholes by restoring the two thirds vote on local taxes.
Secondly, it will ban property transfer taxes.
You know that LA has the worst property transfer tax,
ULA, measure ULA.
They said, oh, if we do a property transfer tax,
every time people sell their house, and we take a rake off the top,
a five percent, like you know real estate agents get a commission,
well government wants its commission, double the real estate rate.
Will solve homelessness.
How's that working out for you, Los Angeles?
Have we solved homelessness yet?
Oh, these liars, cheats and thieves, they get away with it every time.
Some of these Democrat voters, they literally are like,
oh, I can't believe that Trump did all this homelessness,
because of Trump, we have all the homeless here.
Because of Trump, I'm getting gray hair.
Because of Trump, I've got more wrinkles than I did 15 years ago.
Then that's what Karen Bass told me, it's not my fault, it's all Trump's fault.
It's not Karen's bassist fault that Palisades burned down and that she was in Africa,
well it all happened.
Oh, it's all Donald Trump's fault.
Blame Trump.
They wasted all of our money.
Now they need a tax increase, blame Trump.
Some voters aren't going to learn.
But enough, I think, recognize that the cost of living is at a crisis point in California
and we cannot afford to give another penny to politicians.
That's why I'm relatively confident we're going to win the tax fight this year.
The cost of living is insane.
Democrats know it's a problem.
They're going to vote with us independence and Republicans obviously know it's a problem.
They'll vote with us.
We just need to make sure that we break through the false and misleading ballot titles
are going to put on these initiatives when these get on the ballot.
And that's why you need to get your hands on the plain English voter guide at electionguidecalifornia.org
and share it with your friends.
electionguidecalifornia.org.
We're putting all of our eggs in the basket of that secret weapon to make voting simple.
And if you make voting simple, more people will vote and turn out on our side.
Turn out is everything in midterm elections.
The voter guide is our key electionguidecalifornia.org.
Coming up, we've got this city council member here in LA that wants to allow non-citizen
illegal immigrants to vote in all of our elections.
And you knew that this was common, right?
All that and more.
You're listening to KFI AM640 on demand.
It's been great these last two days having this opportunity to give you an update on what we're
doing at reform California. What I've been doing in the California State Legislature
to fight, to turn the tide, to restore some sanity here in California.
But it's not me. It's you. It's all of us.
That's how we're going to get this done.
So in this last segment, I'm going to talk about our California voter ID initiative and this
crazy initiative, this crazy proposal from Los Angeles City Council member Hugo Soto Martinez
to allow non-citizens to vote in elections going forward. Aren't they already voting?
Yeah. But before I depart, if you want to be part of the fight,
get off the couch and into the streets, we will help you.
We'll let you know what to do, how to fight, we'll give you the tools, we'll work with you.
But if you don't do it, no one's coming to save us, all right?
No white nights galloping in to save us, we are going to have to save ourselves.
ReformCalifornia.org is where it all starts.
That's the website to go to reformCalifornia.org.
And also, John has played our clips pretty routinely each week.
Every day, I put a new clip up of what's going on behind the scenes in Sacramento.
We're spilling the tea. We got the video. We have them dead to rights.
And this is stuff that the liberal media will not cover that's going on in the halls of power.
So follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or, I'm sorry, I guess it's called X now, Twitter, or
TikTok. And every day, you'll get one of these videos and you'll know what's going on and you can share it.
It's how we bust through the bias of the liberal media.
In addition to John's great show every day here on AM640, KFI.
So this guy,
a council member, Hugo Soto Martinez, a Democrat socialist, Los Angeles city council,
says that he wants to allow non-citizens to vote in all local elections.
He's not the only one that's proposed this. San Francisco did it for school elections.
Santa Ana put an initiative on the ballot in the last election, which we helped defeat
that would have done it for their city elections.
If you think that this is not going to happen, it's going to happen.
Unless we passed the California voter ID initiative this November,
with the help of more than 18,000 volunteers statewide, we got 1.4 million signatures.
We submitted them. And last week, we got the official notice. We're on the ballot.
The California voter ID initiative, and you can learn more about it at voteridinitiative.com.
It requires number one that we properly maintain our voter lists and that the voter lists
have to now be audited every two years. That's a new requirement that we're going to put in.
We're going to audit the quality, the accuracy of our voter lists.
Before we mail out ballots, we're going to audit the list. Isn't that refreshing?
It's going to save us a ton on postage because a lot of people have moved out of the state of
California. Two million people get ballots who no longer live in the state of California.
And wonder, and wonder where those ballots are going? The harvesting groups, the NGOs like
all these left-wing NGOs, funded by your taxpayer money, harvesting ballots.
With no adequate signature reviews, based on an outdated voter file, we're going to
clean up the voter file and audit it. Second, we're going to require citizenship
verification, which means Mr. Hugo Chavez, what's his name? Hugo Soto Martinez.
He will not be able to implement his proposal. Sorry, buddy, but elections are for citizens only.
Full stop. You're blocked. And then, of course, voter ID, that when you return your ballot,
you verify who you are, either in person with a photo ID or mail-in ballot last four digits of
any government document of your convenience. It has to be a legitimate government document.
You don't have to put your social security number on your ballot. That is a lie that Democrats
are trying to spread. And so this is not hard at all to implement. We don't put the burden on
the voter. We put the burden on the government officials to do their damn job.
But you know darn well that Democrats are going to give this the worst ballot title they can
imagine. So I'm going to need your help as a volunteer, as a contributor, chip in five bucks.
But at least sign up at the website to learn more about what we're doing with this campaign in
the next five months. Voter ID initiative dot com voter ID initiative dot com. If you don't do it,
it ain't happening. I'm just telling that right now. People say, Quarrel, what do we do to fix
California? Here's what we do. And then I hear silence. Try it. The people who thought we couldn't
get voter ID on the ballot get the million signatures on a shoe string budget. They're like, wow,
that's amazing. Good job. I'm like, yeah, uh-huh. So now that we did this, you didn't think it was
possible. Would you at least help us in the next round, which is passing the darn thing? If you're not
already on the list, I give up, but I need you. You don't have to leave this state. You don't
have to flee. You can stay in fight. Go to voter ID initiative dot com and get the voter guide at
election guide California dot org election guide California dot org lots of stuff at reform California.
We're leading the fight to take back this state. We're not giving it up, but we need your help.
All right, Carl DeMio out, but, uh, we have Lou Penrose coming up and John Cobalt will be back
my good friend, John. Thanks for joining us. KFI AM640 on demand.
