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Gavin Newsom: “No income tax increases under my governorship, I've opposed…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Conversation Between Gavin Newsom and Michael Savage on Politics, Health, and Society

Published | Video Starts at 21:40

That's what Karl Marx taught them to do. So the thing is, I'm not advocating for increasing taxes. Haven't done it. As governor of the state of California, No income tax increases under my governorship, I've opposed them. In fact, did $5 million of ads to stop Proposition 30, which was a tax increase run by corporations in the Bay Area that had their own special tax increase where I did ads to oppose it and oppose the wealth tax in California. (21:40–21:44)

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Asserts that there have been no income tax increases in California under Newsom's governorship.

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