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Gavin Newsom: “Celebrating the largest tax increase in modern US History…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 14:59

And I imagine if you caucus those 40 million Americans, you'd find few, I don't care where they were in the last election, that are celebrating this uncertainty, that are Celebrating the largest tax increase in modern US History. In essence, a sales tax, a regressive sales tax. that hurts working folks, that hurts poor folks, that hurts hard working folks like Christine and those that Chris represents disproportionately. This is recklessness at another level. (14:59–15:13)

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Asserts that the current situation represents the largest tax increase in modern U.S. history, likened to a regressive sales tax.

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