California’s proposed one-time billionaire wealth tax was trailing in early election returns Wednesday morning, while Prop 42, which would prevent any future similar measures from getting on the ballot, is ahead by over eight points.

Not only did the billionaire tax fail in California, but prop 42, to amend the California constitution to forbid the introduction of taxes on personal property (investment accounts, art) for the wealthy in the future, backed by greaseball Gavin Newsom, seems to have passed.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Yeah those are def confusing as fuck. And yeah that’s the game they play with the wording of ballot initiatives.

    But 40 is still the first one and it’s not confusing imo and it’s still failed

    Also, unless they’re lying about Bernie Sanders being against 41 and 42, that would have def helped me. But yeah the rest is obviously intentionally confusing and if it were me I would probably have left 41 and 42 blank (assuming I wouldn’t have done the research on each before voting)