Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future.
On Friday he endorsed Proposition 42, a ballot measure that would cancel out Proposition 40, the proposed billionaire tax. Prop. 42 would prohibit retroactive taxes like the one-time 5% tax on assets that would apply to any billionaire who lived in California on Jan. 1, 2026 if Prop. 40 passes.
But Prop. 42, funded and placed on the ballot by billionaire and Google co-founder Sergey Brin to defeat the billionaire tax, also would go further, by banning any new taxes on personal property.
That includes pensions and 401K accounts before retirees start drawing retirement income from them. It also includes other investments, financial assets, business holdings, art collections and all other forms of personal wealth that would be affected by the billionaire tax or any future wealth tax.
Newsom’s decision to support Prop. 42 runs counter to his own Democratic Party and some labor unions. It also aligns him with some of the wealthy tech donors with whom he’s maintained longstanding relationships dating back to his days as mayor of San Francisco.
I’ve voted in every primary since I turned 18 in the year 2000 and this is still happening.
My ballot must be broken.
I do too and had some successes. Those elections are smaller so impact is bigger.
If you constantly losing either you hold an unpopular opinion and no one else around you agrees with you, or you hold a very popular opinion, but other people that hold it prefer to go on social media sites whine who gets elected instead of voting.
I’ve concluded it’s because I don’t have popular opinions. Honestly it makes me feel like voting won’t ever elect someone who actually represents me.
And I shouldn’t run for office because I won’t represent the constituents.
Government sucks and I hate it.