Trump's tax reform and the end of California's Gilded Age

The doomsayers, Democrat and Republican alike, establishment media and swamp-folk in lockstep, continue to writhe and gnash their teeth at any (real and imagined) action taken by the Trump administration.

For once, however, there is a clear and present consequence of Trump’s first profound legislative victory. Landowners in high-population Democratic strongholds will face the crushing brunt of our new tax reform. Over the 2018 midterm season, Anti-Trump forces will court landowners from California to New York, with a siren song blaming Trumpism for their looming tax increases, appealing to voter self-interest while obfuscating their responsibility for the messy situation now at hand.

This is the ultimate reason establishment Republicans have heretofore dragged their feet on every major legislative effort: their swamp nature betrays them. This two-faced fundraising will bolster their ill-gotten coffers, depleted from the pre-Trump political order so horrendously failing the working-class American in favor of imported third world labor.

There is opportunity, if honest and hardworking Americans are willing to seize it. We are not prisoners of the Golden State, the State Assembly-members, Senators, or municipal councilors. If your taxes are set to increase under the new tax reform, then it is our state’s chickens come home to roost.

Trumpist candidates must rise in every elected position available in California. Run on lowering the obscene State and Local Tax rates, on dismantling programs designed to undercut the American worker. You will be heard.

Patrick Barrera