San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens

In Brief

A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t precisely gully a immense assemblage connected Saturday — the San Francisco Chronicle counted astir 3 twelve attendees, on with different twelve tongue-in-cheek counter-protesters.

To beryllium fair, organizer Derik Kauffman had predicted attendance of lone “a fewer dozen” beforehand. But the “March for Billionaires” has drawn outsized attraction connected societal media due to the fact that it’s specified an incongruous idea, and according to Mission Local, journalists astir outnumbered demonstrators astatine the lawsuit itself, wherever marchers carried signs with messages similar “We ❤️ You Jeffrey Bezos” and “It’s precise hard to constitute a nuanced statement connected a sign.” 

The ostensible crushed for the objection was to protestation the Billionaire Tax Act, a projected authorities ballot measurement that would necessitate Californians worthy much than $1 cardinal to wage a one-time, 5% taxation connected their full wealth. If the measurement really passes, Governor Gavin Newsom said he volition veto it.

Kauffman, who founded the AI startup RunRL and is not a billionaire himself, told reporters, “California is, I believe, the lone authorities to springiness wellness security to radical who travel into the state illegally. I deliberation we astir apt should not beryllium providing that.” (Fourteen states connection wellness attraction to undocumented immigrants.)

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