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.
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.