Thanks centrists!
If the ballot had simply said “Do you want to tax billionaires’ wealth?”, I bet the result would have been different. There were 3 separate ballot measures, one of which needed to be voted Yes, and the other two of which needed to be voted No (as they would negate the first), they weren’t super clear, and there was a lot of propaganda getting shoved down their throats about this. I’d be willing to bet that no small amount of people supported the measure but fucked it up when they were voting.
Yup, people in this thread are quick to blame the voters. Most voters, unless taking extreme preparations beforehand, were aware there was a ballot measure to tax the rich, but probably very confused by the three ballot measures and how they would interact.
I suspect Gavin Newsom is having a laugh on a yacht right now with quite a few billionaire friends (figuratively, maybe literally). They wanted to confuse voters with scary language, and they did, by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in disinformation. Musk probably is furiously taking notes.
Keep on laying those golden eggs, goose.
this is why democrats can’t be trusted. They will always betray the working class
I think it’s partly cause people don’t want to take what’s rightfully theirs.
if you have 10 apples and I have 1, I wouldn’t want to take one from you simply cause you have more. if, however, I knew you’d nefariously gotten 5 apples by forcibly taking them from others, then that would be a different story
It’s more like you have a million apples, and there’s a whole town with 1 apple each who’re starving. It doesn’t matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don’t need them and the fact that you’re hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision.
A difference in moral philosophy. The ability to help, absent some other relationship, does not create the obligation to help.
But you guys dont get it. All those voters, that majority, they might be billionaires one day and they’ll want that money
