California Sheriff Chad Bianco Says It Is ‘Time to End’ State Income Tax

Riverside County Sheriff and Republican California gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco announced Saturday that “it's time to end” the state's income tax.

“It’s time to eliminate the state income tax,” Bianco wrote in his letter. mail on X. “Taxpayers should not bear the burden of Sacramento special interests.”

Bianco website California's governor says some of his priorities are “lowering taxes on working families and businesses,” “stopping over-regulation of California's economy to support job and business growth,” and “freeing up California's energy resources to lower gas and utility prices.”

Bianco's website states:

California is the most expensive state to live in Americawhich explains why we lost 412,000 people in other states from July 2020 to July 2023. This is not surprising considering that residents face the highest income taxes and most regulations of any other state. Decades of failed policies and excessive taxation and regulation are causing Californians to leave for greener pastures..

When announcing In February, when he entered the California governor's race to replace term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Bianco said state residents deserve better than to deal with high taxes, rising crime and “tent camps in every major city.”

“We must be completely honest during this campaign, including with representatives of the media,” Bianco said at the time. “Only our Democratic elected officials are responsible for California's decline. What have they given us? Rampant crime, higher taxes, the highest cost of living in our country, tent camps in every major city, more deaths from fentanyl, catastrophic fires, a broken homeowners insurance market, and people across our state struggling to afford groceries and gas. Californians deserve better.”