A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly attract 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 incongruous idea of the “March for Billionaires” has provoked an outsized response on social media. 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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