Sam Harris

Yeah.

Double click on that phenomenon.

So it's been widely reported that some of the richest people in our society don't pay any income tax because they don't get income.

How does that happen?

And you're not taking a salary.

So you're not paying an income tax on your salary that doesn't exist.

There's also this weird- So starting there means taxing people on the loans they're taking?

Right, right.

It's the optics of this that are going to be so determinative of people's vote.

People hear the phrase wealth tax, and it just sounds intrinsically good to anyone who's not extremely wealthy.

Of course, we need a wealth tax.

Okay, so let's talk about homeownership and homelessness and just how you think about that problem at the highest level in California.

I guess my first question is, why do we have, I think, the worst problem of homelessness of any state in the nation?

What explains that?

So what is unique about California apart from the weather?

I mean, I hear how the weather is kind of a forcing function here where on the East Coast, because people are simply going to die outdoors in winter, they've been forced to build more shelter.

Right.

And is there a concomitant factor of people coming to California just because of the weather to be homeless, or is that just a rounding error on the actual problem?

Yeah, there's a strange notion ethically on the far left that what should take primacy is everyone's right to occupy, you know, any public space because they're a citizen of this state.

And in the case of someone who's addicted to drugs or mentally ill and homeless, just to live out the chaos of their life on the sidewalk, letting that just proceed is the most compassionate, you know, ethical thing.