A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t precisely appeal to 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 practically outnumbered demonstrators on the occasion itself, the place marchers carried indicators with messages like “We ❤️ You Jeffrey Bezos” and “It’s very troublesome to write down a nuanced argument on an indication.”
The ostensible cause for the demonstration was to protest the Billionaire Tax Act, a proposed state poll measure that will require Californians price greater than $1 billion to pay a one-time, 5% tax on their whole wealth. If the measure really passes, Governor Gavin Newsom mentioned he will veto it.
Kauffman, who based the AI startup RunRL and isn’t a billionaire himself, advised reporters, “California is, I consider, the one state to provide medical health insurance to individuals who come into the nation illegally. I feel we in all probability shouldn’t be offering that.” (Fourteen states supply well being care to undocumented immigrants.)
