Now is not the time for the crushing tax hikes a split roll would bring

Back in the 1980s, the Schylling Company produced an amusing toy, Ernest the Balancing Bear.
Ernest performed a “death-defying high wire act” on a string strung high across a room. Ernest the Bear pedaled his unicycle as fast and as furious as possible across the wire trying to keep his balance and not fall off into the abyss.
Sounds a lot like California taxpayers under normal circumstances, let alone during this economic free fall brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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