Katie Porter

And maybe we can make some progress on things like aid for fire victims that we have been waiting too long on.

That said, it's pretty likely that Trump is going to hurt Californians and you are going to have to be ready to punch back.

I don't think you can have an answer to that because you have a president whose main characteristic is wild unpredictability.

So I think most of us get up every day and be like, what are we getting today?

So I think you can't know for sure.

But I will say my time in Congress, I think I really showed all of the ability to have all of those different responses.

So there were Republican members of the delegation like Doug LaMalfa who passed away not long ago that I did two bills with Doug and passed them through the House.

There were other Republicans, Daryl Issa, like I just can't get along with that guy and I don't want to.

Don't feel bad about that.

Just can't find that opening space.

So I think you have to kind of be willing to adapt to what Trump is throwing at you because I think it's going to – we see him changing on the minute.

The opposite, actually, I think.

So first, let's talk about progressive taxes.

We have progressive income taxes in California.

But we actually, because of Prop 13, have absolutely not progressive property tax.

In fact, if you buy something and then it appreciates wildly, you get the same benefit as somebody who buys something and it stays flat.

So we're not progressive there.

But more importantly, what I'm really interested in is the fact that we do not have a progressive corporate tax.

If you're a corporation in California and you make a dollar in hard-earned profit, you pay 8.84% on that dollar.

If you're a corporation and you make $500 million in profit, you pay 8.84%.