Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
by Camillo on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:36PM
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California wasn't always pure blue. But the effort the parent described is from 2004, so what matters are the politics of modern CA.
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Re:Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:30AM
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> California wasn't always pure blue.
It's not pure blue, now, either, and more to the point, the Democrats in the California electorate are not a hive mind of stereotypes.
> But the effort the parent described is from 2004, so what matters are the politics of modern CA.
The Norquist-before-Norquist Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is one of the most powerful political forces in modern California, too.
(Also, in 2004, California was less bright blue than modern CA; it had just recalled the Democratic governor and elected a Republican replacement, after all.)