… some temporary increase in the income tax rate for very wealthy people to make up that gap because we will have a reduction in revenues. Now that's off the table. They are protecting millionaires with this amendment so that the only recourse for the state to cover the budget gap... will be to go to the sales tax. So every person here who we're saying that we care about on affordability, people who really can't afford to pay anymore, they're going to be the ones who have to … (17:16–17:28)
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Asserts that a constitutional amendment protects millionaires and shifts the burden to sales tax.
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