cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72196893
“He’s showing California his true colors,” Debru Carthan, vice president of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW)—which is leading the campaign for the California billionaire tax—said in response to Newsom’s endorsement of Proposition 42. “He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share.”
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But critics have described Prop 42 as a “poison-pill measure” whose supporters are fearmongering about a nonexistent threat to retirement savings in an effort to defeat the proposed billionaire tax, revenue from which would be used to fund healthcare, food aid, and education in the state.
“Its true target is Prop 40,” the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the Newsom-backed measure. “Prop 42 papers over its real purpose by cynically appealing to middle-class worries about retirement security. Reject this appalling tactic and disincentivize its further use by voting no.”
Newsom has opposed the idea of a wealth tax on California’s billionaires from the proposal’s inception, pitting him against major unions, the California Democratic Party, and prominent national progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).
Gavin Newsom please stop doing politics already, we all hate you and can see right through your shallow bs.
Was there ever any doubt who’s side he was on.
He certainly ended up on Paramount’s side.
God he really fucking needs to lose the primary in two years. Who knows what the fuck will happen if the DNC anoints him
If he fails and the billionaire tax gets passed, he’s going to hope this is memory holed. If the billionaire tax fails to pass or this measure goes through, he’s going to immediately pivot to “That one tax wasn’t the right way to do it.”
Spoiler: There will never be a “right” way to tax billionaires.
If the tax gets passed, he’ll shout from the rooftops that he’s the governor that got the tax passed. Republicans do this shit all the time, be against something popular, vote against it, then when it passes take credit
Let this be the end of his career.
Chosen one? Wut? No he the fuck wasn’t. He’s been this way for-fucking-ever
Cannot tell you how many of my boomer coworkers were in LOVE with this guy because he said a mean thing about Trump like… twice. When I pointed out that Newsom is also a corporate stooge, they just accused me of “dividing the left”. Still dunno why they think Newsom is left…
Without Newsom, marriage equality would not be where it would be today. With that noted, there is only one way I’d vote for him in the primary and that would be if his sole opponent is Emmanuel. I really do not want to live in that world.
wtf are you talking about…?
Newsom is a corporatist neoliberal shitheel. He is a political mercenary, nothing more. He jumped the right way to capture some popular sentiment at the anger people have towards orangeboi. He is absolutely the worst kind of centrist.
