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Gavin Newsom: “We have a progressive tax structure, the most progressive in…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Sort of an attempt to get at that. Yeah. But in a national level, we're competing with 50 states. Capital flows and move. That's real. It's not imagined. It's very, very real. So We have a progressive tax structure, the most progressive in the country, by the way. States like Texas and Florida, the most regressive tax structures, they tax their lowest wage earners more than we tax our highest wage earners. They are the high tax states. (26:54–26:59)

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Asserts that California has the most progressive tax structure in the country.

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