Yeah my comment is looking waaay off

They can, but it will take a concerted, well funded effort to push a wealth tax.

It’s going to be a blue wave, but lowkey I think a lot of incumbent democrats are gonna get taken out too. I’m not really sure how much of the general mood is anti-GOP and how much is anti-incumbency.

Reporting from California, I think we’re gonna get a little fucked over by prop 40 (one-time tax on billionaires). I don’t know if it will pass or fail, but it doesn’t matter. Because in response to 40, Sergey Brin and other billionaires got prop 42 on the ballot, and are funding a huge campaign for it by tens of millions of dollars. If 42 passes not only will it block whatever the voters choose with 40, it will forbid California from ever taxing wealth.

The campaign against 42 is seriously underfunded and disorganized. So many texts and ads focusing how if we don’t pass 42 then the GOVERNMENT is gonna come after the $10k you have saved up in your 401k and not about how it will never let us address wealth inequality. And everyone I know is falling for it, I think it will be a landslide. Genuinely wish 40 was never put on the ballot because of it.

(And yes of course, we can just appropriate wealth after the revolution I know, at the same time I’d like to be able at least try and address inequality before then)