San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens
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A 'March for Billionaires' in San Francisco, protesting a proposed wealth tax, attracted only a few dozen attendees, with media presence nearly outnumbering demonstrators.
舊金山支持億萬富翁遊行僅吸引數十人
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在舊金山舉行的一場「億萬富翁遊行」，旨在抗議一項擬議的財富稅，僅吸引了數十名參與者，媒體人數幾乎超過了示威者。
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San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens
A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday — the San Francisco Chronicle counted around three dozen attendees, along with another dozen tongue-in-cheek counter-protesters.
To be fair, organizer Derik Kauffman had predicted attendance of only “a few dozen” beforehand. But the “March for Billionaires” has drawn outsized attention on social media because it’s such an incongruous idea, and according to Mission Local, journalists nearly outnumbered demonstrators at the event itself, where marchers carried signs with messages like “We ❤️ You Jeffrey Bezos” and “It’s very difficult to write a nuanced argument on a sign.”
The ostensible reason for the demonstration was to protest the Billionaire Tax Act, a proposed state ballot measure that would require Californians worth more than $1 billion to pay a one-time, 5% tax on their total wealth. If the measure actually passes, Governor Gavin Newsom said he will veto it.
Kauffman, who founded the AI startup RunRL and is not a billionaire himself, told reporters, “California is, I believe, the only state to give health insurance to people who come into the country illegally. I think we probably should not be providing that.” (Fourteen states offer health care to undocumented immigrants.)
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