James Anthony of Oakland Citizens for Equity and Prosperity may have the definitive take on California bud taxes, Oakland taxes in particular.
“They insist on boiling the frog backwards,” Anthony said. “Their fucking idea of how to boil a frog is to get the water boiling, fling that poor little bastard in there, and tell him that it’s OK because you’ll turn the heat down in a couple of years.”
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- The city’s 10-percent tax on gross receipts are the highest such rate in California, no slouch in the tax-them-to-the-brink-of-mortality division itself. Oakland is the Kawhi Leonard of getting taxed for selling pot.
- Critics such as Anthony say that neighboring cities with lower tax rates will take away Oakland business, unless the gross-receipts tax is lowered.
