Here’s my solution. Let the state tax for individuals simply be a fraction of the federal tax, to be set by the legislature, and chosen to raise the same total revenue as the current tax. The return would fit on a postcard, saving hours for each taxpayer and freeing several thousand unproductive state employees for useful work in the private sector. Eliminating three thousand state of California employees at a cost of $100,000 each, including salaries, benefits, and overhead, would save the hard-pressed state $300 million a year, not to mention all the time and money saved by citizens.
Please say you’re running for office at the end of this chapter ;) except, who would fund this platform? No one pays for fairness.
