California helped propel its former governor, Ronald Reagan, to the White House through its 1978 tax revolt, which quickly spread to the vast majority of states. Golden State voters have reaffirmed Proposition 13 for decades, creating a "tax revolt family tree" of amendments that repeatedly frustrate would-be tax hikers.
Local officials and big-government boosters have allegedly found a new way to suppress anti-tax advocacy, however: Dub it "hate speech" and doxxing.
The drafters of California's "Billionaire Tax" ballot measure, and leaders of the labor union sponsoring it, threatened legal action against a State Assembly candidate for identifying them on his website as the "Looter Dream Team" and pointing visitors to their own institutions' web pages for contacting them, according to the candidate's lawyers.