It’s official: The proposed California Billionaire Tax Act, which last week was ++certified++ for November’s election, has a ballot designation—Proposition 40.
“The people of California now have the opportunity to decide what kind of future they want,” Service Employees International Union-United ++HealthcareWorkers++ West (SEIU-UHW) vice president Debru Carthan ++said++ on Thursday.
The advantage is this is the one that’s on the ballot. We do not have a tax increase to vote for, we do have this to vote for. And ‘they might fight it’ is a terrible reason to not try.
They won’t “might fight it”. They absolutely will fight it.
Oh no! They’re going to fight it, everyone give up!
Taking any money from billionaires is a worthy cause, because hoarding wealth only lets them convince people it means they can so whatever they want.
Yes thanks for the knee jerk response. My questioning was about whether this is the best strategy to address the wealth hoarding. But sure, let’s do this feel good vote no matter how ineffective it will be…. This is no long term solution, and the “one time only” wording is super suspicious.