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@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:11 PM

Californians: Vote Yes on #Prop40. A "loophole" implies an unintended flaw. The opposition ads are an intended, heavily funded fear campaign. Do not let billionaires redefine standard legal text as a trap to protect their untaxed wealth. #WealthTax

@andrewlissiman.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:53 PM

Democracy not oligarchy.. 🤨
#taxbillionaires #prop40

@margdoosamm.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:26 PM

Because he's beholden to corporations and billionaires. He's NOT who we need for president.

Vote YES on #Prop40, and show #Newsom what we think of his politics and his priorities!

#YesOn40
#NoOn41
#NoOn42
#NoOnNewsom

Here's a great video explainer on Prop 40: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tufv...

@anildharmapal.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:56 PM

Vote for #prop40 the Billionaire tax, California!🇺🇸👍🏽

Don’t listen to ANY politician who is against #prop40 including #governorNewsom#Democrat#Republican#gop

Make these billionaires pay their fair share via #prop40 to stay in our wonderful state and economy.

@libertyjustice.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:50 PM

I saw one last night, nearly threw something at the screen.
Such liars, trying to make themselves sound like one of us.

NOPE, not buying it billionaire boys. Vote YES on #Prop40

@rhutabhayga.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:49 PM

Please share
#Prop40

After living in the Golden State for over two decades, I understand the old saw that America is built on a tilt, and everything good or bad slides down from California. (Mark Twain said everything loose slides to California.)
Among the good is California voters’ support for what could be America’s (indeed, the world’s) first tax on billionaires — which will appear as Proposition 40 on California’s upcoming ballot. (Note to Californians: Propositions 41 and 42 are poison pills designed to negate Proposition 40.)
A majority of Californians are in favor of Proposition 40 (65 percent of the state’s Democrats back it).
On the bad side are the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by California’s billionaires against the proposal (including $187 million from just one of them, Google co-founder Sergey Brin) — along with the cowardice of most of the state’s political class in either saying nothing about the billionaire tax proposal or falling in line behind Governor Gavin Newsom in opposing it.
I’ve studied the proposal, and, while not perfect, I judge it a significant step in the right direction. It would be a one-time 5 percent tax on the assets of California’s billionaires, designed to reimburse the state for the healthcare money lost to it when Trump’s Big Ugly Bill cut Medicaid to help pay for a gigantic tax cut that went mainly to the richest Americans and biggest corporations.
The billionaire tax is fair. It won’t cause billionaires to abandon California (only a handful have left and, as I said, it’s a one-time tax that pertains only to wealth as of January 1, 2026). It’s carefully crafted. It was largely the brainchild of two of my brightest colleagues here at Berkeley, economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. It’s been endorsed by six Nobel laureates.

@haargald.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:55 PM

I strongly disagree with @wearecta.bsky.social on #Prop40 .Their opposition does not meet the moment we are in.Their excuse that it is a shortterm answer is a smokescreen for corporatist incrementalism,the thing A LABOR UNION SHOULD OPPOSE.Who are they trying to please, Newsom?Certainly not members.

@exxitter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:30 PM

#Tsunami #Prop40 #Oligarchs #TaxTheBillionaires

@the-wolves.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:26 AM

trump decided to pay meet up with Kehlani fans right down the street from the Googlplex

It's the home to bilionaire, Segrey Brin, who's spending hundreds of millions to block the #BillionaireWealthTax

Don't let Sergey Brin win! No on 41 & 42, Yes on 40!

#Prop40
#TaxTheRich
#Election
#Midterms

@justingee69.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:25 AM

trump decided to pay meet up with Kehlani fans right down the street from the Googlplex

It's the home to bilionaire, Sergey Brin, who's spending hundreds of millions to block the #BillionaireWealthTax

Don't let Sergrey Brin win! No on 41 & 42, Yes on 40!

#Prop40
#TaxTheRich
#Election
#Midterms

@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Oct 7, 2026, 3:42 PM

I quite liked this short piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social on California's #Prop40 billionaire tax.

"At stake is whether the US super-rich’s largely unimpeded ascent in the last generation will continue uninterrupted. The tax’s goal is thus political, not budgetary."

@swirlosquirrel.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:06 AM

#California

Vote #YES on #Prop40 (The Billionaire Tax)

Vote #NO on #Prop41 and #Prop42

@the-wolves.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:03 AM

Everyday Is Halloween, When Billionaires Are On The Scene

Yes on 40!

No on 41 & 42!

28 Days until the #Midterms

#Halloween
#Election
#Prop40
#BillionaireWealthTax
#California

@justingee69.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:00 AM

Everyday Is Halloween, When Billionaires Are On The Scene

Yes on 40!

No on 41 & 42!

28 Days until the #Midterms

#Halloween
#Election
#Prop40
#BillionaireWealthTax
#California

@brendanburkart.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:46 AM

#california vote YES on #prop40

And let's do it every year until billionaires pay enough that the bottom 50% doesn't pay any tax AND we still have the free:

Clean air & water
Education from 6 months
School lunches
Health Care
Elder Care
Dignified retirement at 65
Roads
Libraries

#voteBLUE

@libertyjustice.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:20 AM

#California, #Prop40, #BillionairesTax

Hell yeah, I'm voting YES too!

@vickiehinkley.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:08 AM

#JUSTDOIT !! #CALIFORNIA #PROP40 #BILLIONAIRETax

@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Oct 6, 2026, 7:37 PM

From this nice write-up of #Prop40 and its evil nemeses, Props 41 and 42, by Alix Rosenthal. H/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Oct 6, 2026, 7:34 PM

I was unaware that Paul Krugman had written a letter with five other Nobel economists in favor of #Prop40, the billionaire tax. gabriel-zucman.eu/files/prop40...

"As Californians head to the polls, their vote may well come to be seen as a turning point in the battle between democracy and oligarchy." Signed: Daron Acemoglu, Abhijit, Banerjee, Peter Diamond, Esther Duflo, Paul Krugman, and Joseph Stiglitz.

@exxitter.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 5:47 PM

#Bernie #Prop40