Bernie Sanders has traveled to Los Angeles to kick off a campaign for a proposed “billionaires tax” that has set off an uproar in the Silicon Valley and led to divisions among Democrats.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall’s midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party’s leading figures into adversaries just when Democrats can least afford division from within.

Bernie Sanders will be in Los Angeles campaigning Wednesday for the tax proposal that has the Silicon Valley in an uproar, with tech titans are threatening to leave the state. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is among its outspoken opponents, warning that it could leave government finances in crisis and put the state at a competitive disadvantage nationally.

    • criscodisco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      He’s taking L after L. When he was getting all the attention and praise for his blue MAGA rhetoric, I was telling people that were getting sucked up by it that they need to look into this dude, because he is NOT our ally. One of these people has a trans son. Now they are all saying “fuck that guy”.