Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-future-wealth-tax

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72196893

“He’s showing California his true colors,” Debru Carthan, vice president of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW)—which is leading the campaign for the California billionaire tax—said in response to Newsom’s endorsement of Proposition 42. “He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share.”

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But critics have described Prop 42 as a “poison-pill measure” whose supporters are fearmongering about a nonexistent threat to retirement savings in an effort to defeat the proposed billionaire tax, revenue from which would be used to fund healthcare, food aid, and education in the state.

“Its true target is Prop 40,” the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the Newsom-backed measure. “Prop 42 papers over its real purpose by cynically appealing to middle-class worries about retirement security. Reject this appalling tactic and disincentivize its further use by voting no.”

Newsom has opposed the idea of a wealth tax on California’s billionaires from the proposal’s inception, pitting him against major unions, the California Democratic Party, and prominent national progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).

Gavin Newsom please stop doing politics already, we all hate you and can see right through your shallow bs.

I consider this a prime Gestapo move if you are gunning for the top position of performative opposition/Top Good Cop in a fascist society run by billionaires.

when it's something like reproductive and contraceptive rights, the whole thing can have no legal basis except for case law that can be overturned at any time by the whim of five people. but when it's taxing the wealthy, it's a constitutional amendment to guarantee it can never happen. their money gets legal protection, our lives don't

The ideal outcome is that this fails AND makes Newsom radioactive when he goes for the Democrat nomination.

No on 42, yes on 40. Got it!

No on 41 as well, my friend

Just like he endorsed the worst merger in history, recently. I'd be happy if I read he was hit by a car and didn't live to see tomorrow.