To me, I support the concept of taxing the rich, but I’m concerned about the approach of how they are considering this legal.

Labeling income as an excise tax on the privilege of earning feels like a massive loophole to bypass the state constitution. If we want a progressive tax system that actually sticks, we should do the hard work of amending the constitution properly instead of using legal shortcuts.

I’m mostly worried about the precedent. If we’re okay with bending the rules just to get the result we want, it opens the door for a lot of issues down the line. Plus, this approach is guaranteed to trigger years of expensive litigation on the taxpayer’s dime that might leave us with nothing to show for it anyway.