Gavin Newsom: “Yes, it has a progressive tax code, but it's very different…”

“And that offends these guys. And you know, it's interesting, it's all stay with universal health care. It's $25 minimum wage for health care workers, $20 minimum wage for fast food workers. Yes, it has a progressive tax code, but it's very different than the code tax systems in places like Texas and Florida that tax their lowest wage earners more than we tax our highest wage earners. The question is, who is the high tax state? Now we do have problems with. There are people living on the streets.” (06:30–06:43)

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