California’s population is 37.3 million. The U.S. population is almost 314 million. California has more than 10 percent of the country’s population. It gave President Obama its 55 electoral votes and Californians also approved a constitutional amendment that increased the sales tax and substantially raised income taxes on the top 3 percent of the state’s earners.
The state sales tax went up to 7.5 percent from 7.25 percent — not as much as Gov. Jerry Brown had requested, but still an increase that every citizen will pay on…
Poles apart: election shows country’s growing disparities
