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5 California taxes Kamala Harris could use to crush the middle class
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Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her economic plan in a speech Aug. 16, which included a press for Big Government by putting a ban on price gouging for groceries and food, the cancelation of medical debt (what’s next, credit card debt?), a child tax credit to provide $6,000 per child to families for the year of the baby’s life, and $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers.
The only problem for those homebuyers is that if you lived in Harris’ San Francisco, where the median home sale price has soared to an outlandish $1,300,000, you wouldn’t even make 2% of the down payment necessary to get into that home. Good luck. While we are giving away freebies how about we add in free school lunch, unlimited recess and no school on Friday?
The challenge with all these populist ideas is how do you pay for them? Well, if Americans don’t vote on popularity but look at the policies, here is what you would learn is already going on in San Francisco which may foreshadow the policies we will see over the next four years.
HARRIS PROPOSES MAJOR CORPORATE TAX HIKE, REVERSING TRUMP ERA CUTS
1. Forget about the Democrats wanting to raise corporate taxes, large businesses fund homelessness services in San Francisco
This tax, approved by voters in 2019, imposes an additional tax on large businesses to fund homelessness services. This rate is between 0.175% and .69% of gross receipts over $50 million, depending on the industry. Businesses or combined groups that pay the administrative office tax also pay an additional tax of 1.5% on their payroll expenses in San Francisco.
Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden appeared together hours after a report came out that she was seeking “distance” from his policies (Getty Images)
2. Forget about the new commission rules on real estate agents, San Francisco imposes an additional Real Estate Transfer tax.
This tax is in addition to any commissions paid to real estate agents. San Francisco imposes a Real Estate Transfer tax on the sale of real property. The rate is graduated based on the sale price ranging from 0.5% for properties under $250,000 to 6% for properties over $25 million dollars. This is another clear example of redistribution of wealth and even for middle class folks who live in San Francisco (that median price of $1,300,000), it would cost them $10,500.
3. If you don’t think federal income taxes and capital gains taxes won’t go up, California has the highest state tax rate in the country
If you live in California, you know one thing. You pay plenty of state taxes, particularly state income taxes which balloon to 13.3% at the highest level. But in January of this year, since California fell further and further into a deficit, the rates went up to an eye-popping 14.4%, which is the result of a no limit on California’s 1.1% employee payroll tax for State Disability Insurance.
Follow the policies. Social Security under Kamala could have Americans paying 6.2% on all their income and the answer to solve all problems could be to just increase your taxes.
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4. If you don’t think Kamala is for Big Government with her price-gouging statements, San Francisco has a Sugary Drink Tax
The city imposes a one cent per fluid ounce excise tax on the initial distribution within San Francisco of sugar-sweetened beverages, syrups and powders. When you believe in Big Government, you just tax items to attempt to change behavior.
5. If you can’t hit them with a high-income tax, San Francisco has one of the highest sales taxes in the country
The state of California leads all states in the country with a 7.25% sales tax. But it gets even better for those middle-class folks in San Francisco where the sales tax is a whopping 8.63%.
Does this mean that the United States will see a potential federal consumption tax on all Americans on top of the income taxes and payroll taxes we pay today? It is no wonder that San Francisco has completely lost the middle class, and it now pretends to benefit the ultra-rich and the ultra-poor?
They say that past performance is no guarantee of future results, but it can give people tremendous insight on how the leader will make decisions in the future. The question is whether voters will pull the lever in November on popularity or on policy?
If the polices enacted the last six years in San Francisco are a harbinger for the future, putting Kamala Harris in charge will give us all a steady dose of one thing. Getting taxed to death by a thousand paper cuts.
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Editor’s note: This episode was originally published on Oct. 12, 2025.
Two cabins in Jackson, Wyoming are what’s left of a set for a Hollywood western filmed in the area during the 1950s. One of them is five miles north of Jackson in Kelly and the other is under the ownership of History Jackson Hole, a museum in town.
This week on “It’s Worth Mentioning,” Rett Nelson speaks with local researcher Samantha Ford and dives into the history of these cabins, the film in which they were featured and why Jackson was selected as the production site.
If you’re a cinephile or a fan of old movies, this is an episode you don’t want to miss!
Previous episodes are available in the audio player below. Watch previous episodes here.
Season two is coming in 2026. If you have a topic or guest idea for an upcoming episode, email rett@eastidahonews.com.
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A federal appeals court on Friday struck down California’s ban on openly carrying guns across most of the state.
In a 2–1 decision, the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled California’s ban on open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people — covering roughly 95% of the state’s population — violates the Second Amendment, according to Reuters.
U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, writing for the majority, said the ban conflicts with the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which requires gun regulations to be consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation,” Reuters reported.
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U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke appears in a video released by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals March 20, 2025. (9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals/Handout via Reuters)
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,” VanDyke wrote. “It was clearly protected at the time of the founding and at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
VanDyke also noted that California previously allowed residents to openly carry holstered handguns for self-defense without penalty until 2012.
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A pistol is concealed in a belt. (iStock)
“That changed only when California enacted its urban open-carry ban barely over a decade ago in 2012,” he said. “In doing so, California joined a tiny minority of states to have adopted such severe restrictions on open carry.”
The decision overturned part of a 2023 ruling by a lower court that had dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2019 by gun owner Mark Baird, while rejecting his challenge to open-carry licensing in smaller counties, according to Reuters.
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A retail store in San Ramon, Calif., July 21, 2019. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
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In October, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other gun groups said they were suing California over the state’s ban on Glock-style guns with features known as switches that allow them to be converted to fully automatic weapons.
The NRA was joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Poway Weapons & Gear, and two NRA members in challenging the state’s ban.
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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Philadelphia Eagles to play San Francisco 49ers in NFL playoffs. Here’s what you need to know.
The Philadelphia Eagles will begin the playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers in the wild-card round next weekend at Lincoln Financial Field.
The Birds (No. 3 seed) had a chance to earn the No. 2 seed with a win, but lost to the Washington Commanders in the regular season finale.
Here’s what you need to know about the matchup vs. the 49ers and more.
Which day will the Eagles and 49ers play?
The date and time of the wild-card round matchup between the Eagles and 49ers have yet to be announced, but playoff games are scheduled for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Two games will take place Saturday, three will happen Sunday and the final first-round matchup will be on Monday night.
Eagles and 49ers postseason history
The Eagles and 49ers have only met twice in postseason history, most recently in the NFC championship game in the 2022 season.
The Eagles won that game, 31-7, before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. In that game, the 49ers were decimated at quarterback as Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson suffered injuries.
After Johnson exited, Purdy returned to the game in the third quarter, but he was unable to throw the football beyond a few yards. The injuries to San Francisco’s quarterbacks led to the NFL approving a rule change that allows teams to play an emergency quarterback if the starter and backup are injured.
The Eagles are 1-1 vs. San Francisco all-time in the playoffs. Philadelphia’s loss to the 49ers in the playoffs happened in the wild-card round in 1996.
The title game in the 2022 season between the Eagles and 49ers started a rivalry that boiled over into 2023.
In 2023, the 49ers traveled to Lincoln Financial Field in Week 13 and dominated the Eagles, 42-19. The loss started the infamous collapse for the Eagles to end the season as the Birds lost six of the final seven games, including the playoff exit vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The loss to the Niners in the 2023 season also featured Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro and then-49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw being ejected from the game after a scuffle on the sideline.
The Eagles and 49ers haven’t played each other since the 2023 season.
How the Eagles and 49ers got here
The Eagles went 11-6 in the 2025 season and won the NFC East for the second consecutive year, which ended a 20-year stretch of the division not having a repeat winner.
The Niners had a chance to earn the No. 1 seed, but fell to the Seattle Seahawks Saturday night. The 49ers finished the year with a 12-5 record to earn the No. 6 seed.
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