Rogan shared his views during a wide-ranging conversation with journalist Michael Shellenberger, according to Breitbart. “California’s done such a terrible fucking job of governing their state. That place is so crazy. Like every time there’s some new law that they’re trying to push through, some new bill, and I’m like do they just want everyone to leave?” Rogan said.
After Shellenberger pointed to prominent billionaires allegedly fleeing California over punitive taxes and heavy regulation, Rogan argued that the real issue is not a lack of revenue but a lack of responsibility. “The thing that drives me the most nuts is when these progressive talking heads start saying [billionaires] don’t want to pay their fair share. With the amount of waste and fraud, you don’t think there should be some accountability to how much fucking waste and fraud that has been clearly demonstrated? The solution is just to give more money? Oh and they can do it because they have it, so what you just give more money and now it’s $30 billion goes to homeless with no accountability,” he said.
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Rogan pressed the point that pouring more taxpayer dollars into broken systems will not fix deep-seated policy failures. “What do you think this money is going to go where it’s actually going to help people and affect things in a positive way?” he continued. “There’s no indication that that’s the case, that the real problem is they just haven’t had enough money from the billionaires.”
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Rogan ultimately dismissed the progressive tax narrative as both dishonest and lazy, arguing that citizens should demand competence before surrendering more of their income. He called the push for ever-higher taxes on the wealthy “ludicrous,” adding, “That’s fucking ludicrous. That is ludicrous. It’s such a ludicrous and intellectually lazy framing of this whole discussion. To say oh they don’t want to pay their fair share. Fuck you,” he emphasized. “That’s not what’s going on here. What’s going on here you have a completely incompetent government. That’s absolutely corrupt and they want more money.”
