The unprecedented measure has enormous potential nationwide. The clash exposes the party’s corporate-progressive divide

Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.

The ratio was more than 4 to 1. But the state’s most powerful Democrats – including the governor Gavin Newsom, his near-certain successor Xavier Becerra and the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass – have lined up with Silicon Valley billionaires who’ve raised upward of $340m to defeat the initiative.

  • deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “radical socialist” username

    bio says overpopulation bullshit that is not true and borderline genocidal

    spends time punching left

    also peddling Russian bot nonsense on legitimately sourced stats (not that they’re entirely accurate but surely there’s a line between voting stat inaccuracy and literal Russian intervention)

    Interesting that you even consider yourself socialist