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Consider? Is anyone, other than billionaires, really on the fence about this issue?
I can tell you having voted for multiple taxes that would have only hit the rich in California that this tax will be incessantly attacked by rich people with arguments that it’ll somehow raise a normal person’s taxes. And enough idiots might believe it that this measure will fail.
Yup, I already have received multiple fliers that try to paint it as a generic wealth tax and do not mention that it only applies to billionaires or that it's a one time tax. People will be deceived. Hopefully the language on the ballot is straightforward enough.
Both the current governor and both potential future governors are against this. The Democratic party in CA hasn't stated its official position, but most of the top D leaders in the state are against this.
They say it will make the ultra-wealthy leave the state.
To that I say, "good!" We don't need them, and they are a net negative for us. They barely pay taxes as it is, and they use so many resources that it might be better for our beautiful environment.
Oh no! People who don't pay taxes might rattle their sabers about leaving to avoid paying taxes!
Uppercase D Democrats are fucking malicious morons.
Bootlickers
The billionaires will see how many people they can flip with the $800 billion dollars they're gonna collectively spend in ads.
One of the Google founders has already spent something like $45 million to fight this. He is worth $235B, so this tax would cost him $12B, which would be 300 times as much as he spent to fight it. Not that he would even notice that loss. Is there any functional difference between having $235B and $223B? Of course not.
Newsom
Yeah, cause half the population is brainwashed to think "this is just a slippery slope to raising MY taxes."
Happens over and over again.
Illinois has a flat tax written into the state constitution, they keep trying to change it to a progressive tax, and it keeps failing cause of the red part of the state combined with the wealthy blue parts = just enough to keep it from being changed.
Personally I don't think it's a good idea. I mean, why only a one time tax? This should be permanent. I guess I will vote for it though...
IMO it's obviously necessary but it absolutely should be a federal thing. States doing it will only allow people who have all the means in the world to just move and get away from it. The US moving towards more tribalistic laws isn't helping anyone.
Besides the other comments, the vast majority are apathetic voters who don't bother to exercise their right or even inform themselves that it's on the ballot.