A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t precisely entice an enormous crowd on Saturday — the San Francisco Chronicle counted round three dozen attendees, together with one other dozen tongue-in-cheek counter-protesters.
To be honest, organizer Derik Kauffman had predicted attendance of solely “a number of dozen” beforehand. However the incongruous thought of the “March for Billionaires” has provoked an outsized response on social media. And according to Mission Local, journalists almost outnumbered demonstrators on the occasion itself, the place marchers carried indicators with messages like “We ❤️ You Jeffrey Bezos” and “It’s very troublesome to put in writing a nuanced argument on an indication.”
The ostensible purpose for the demonstration was to protest the Billionaire Tax Act, a proposed state poll measure that will require Californians value greater than $1 billion to pay a one-time, 5% tax on their whole wealth. If the measure truly passes, Governor Gavin Newsom stated he will veto it.
Kauffman, who based the AI startup RunRL and isn’t a billionaire himself, informed reporters, “California is, I consider, the one state to provide medical insurance to individuals who come into the nation illegally. I believe we most likely shouldn’t be offering that.” (Fourteen states provide well being care to undocumented immigrants.)
