Tax questions on state and local ballots this November are the topic of my column this week:
The tax-increase ballot measures, in particular, are a sign of how the higher-tax crowd has become more sophisticated in the decades since the passage of Proposition 13. Their poll-driven playbook seems to be to tailor tax increases to target unpopular minorities — millionaires, big businesses, individuals with the poor taste to drink Gatorade or Coca-Cola instead of latte, Perrier, or Cabernet — and then to claim that the tax revenues will be spent on worthy causes such as schools or obesity reduction.
Please check it out at the New York Sun (here), Reason (here), and Newsmax (here).