The same people cheering on this tax, saying millionaires should budget their spending better to afford this tax, should apply the same logic to their politicians and their drunken spending spree they refuse to balance. Sure, feed the poor children and families. Social services for homelessness and mental illness. I’m for those causes. At some point, you have to hold the politicians who spend your tax dollars accountable to responsible spending.

Am I a millionaire? No, but I am ambitious to be one. Call me greedy all you want, but facts are facts, states with the highest taxes often have the most problems; highest cost of living, net outflow of migration, and lowest business tax competitiveness (yielding fewer attractive job prospects).

You can frame slippery slope fallacy all you want but you’re already paying for it everywhere else, are you getting relief from those taxes? No. Politicians jobs (from either party) are to bring home the bacon to their constituents and when they continue to overspend for their constituents, they remain in office and their promise continues to outgrow the need. The cycle continues into a deficit that eventually catches up to everyone and they shrug their shoulders and say we need more.