In an article we posted last December, Give Your Children to us – Now, we pointed out that the liberals in California are trying to get their hands deeper into the pockets of taxpayers by using worthwhile-sounding deceptions to make us all think higher taxes are for the better. Rob Reiner, a.k.a. “Meathead,” and his liberal associates are driving tax-paying businesses and residents out of the Golden State. Reiner’s tactics are called out very nicely in this article from Opinion Journal’s editorial staff:
It takes hard work to drive anyone away from California’s sunshine and scenic vistas, but politicians in Sacramento have been up to the task.
The latest Census Bureau data indicate that, in 2005, 239,416 more native-born Americans left the state than moved in. California is also on pace to lose domestic population (not counting immigrants) this year.
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And things may soon get worse, thanks to Rob Reiner, who played the liberal “Meathead” on the “All in the Family” sitcom in the 1970s and now plays the same part in real life. He and his rich Hollywood friends have put an initiative on the state’s June ballot that would add a 1.7-percentage-point income-tax surcharge on “millionaires” with income over $400,000, with the proceeds earmarked for universal pre-school.
This isn’t Mr. Reiner’s first foray into confiscatory tax politics. Last year he sponsored a ballot initiative narrowly approved by voters that imposed a percentage-point income-tax surcharge (to the current 10.3%) to pay for government mental-health subsidies. And in the late 1990s he helped to pass an initiative to raise the state’s tobacco tax by 50 cents a pack to pay for children’s health care.
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I think it’s time to induct Meathead into the Star Whores Hall of Shame. Welcome Rob Reiner to the “Most Destructive Liberals” gallery in the SWHS.
People do not change. Let him lead the way in paying his income taxes.