Comment by frogblast

This is fearmongering. The bill was introduced a year ago, went nowhere, and is now dead. This WSJ article was published a month after the bill was officially killed…

The broader legislature has no interest in such a tax.

This is the bill in question: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xht...

Edit: also note that this article is on the WSJ opinion page, and didn’t come from the news desk.