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California's High Taxes and Ben's Texas Baptism Fantasy
from #218 - Fake Business | The Tim Dillon Show · #218
3 min
Tim breaks down California's high state tax rate for top earners, contrasts it with Bernie Sanders' healthcare-for-taxes vision and pointless foreign wars, then riffs on Ben returning to Texas religion and Tim starting his own megachurch.
- California's 13% state income tax is set to rise to 17%, hitting nearly 20% for high earners making a million dollars a year.
- High earners could simply relocate their businesses elsewhere to avoid these taxes rather than accept the burden.
- Tim argues the taxes would be justified if they produced tangible benefits like healthcare coverage, but instead fund endless wars.
- The government wastes tax dollars building drones to bomb civilians in Pakistan instead of funding actual services.
- People might accept higher taxes if the spending were verifiable and transparent rather than disappearing into fake wars.
- Tim imagines Ben going into the woods to fight the devil, losing maybe but showing up for the fight anyway.
- Tim jokes about starting a megachurch and putting Ben back in a cult.
- The megachurch pitch: "He has never forgotten about you, but you have forgotten about him" repeated over and over to the congregation.
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