Source: SFGate
“The labor union pushing forward the highly controversial billionaire’s wealth tax is launching its first TV ad during the Olympics this weekend, SFGATE has learned. The 30-second ad, paid for by the Service Employees International Union, a health care union, will play during the men’s gold hockey game Sunday, the union confirmed. The commercial warns that California’s health care industry is under threat of collapse under looming federal health care cuts, and warns that more hospitals could close and that there are likely to be ‘longer wait times and overcrowded emergency rooms’ as a result. ‘Massive federal cuts will shut hospitals and emergency rooms forever because billionaires refuse to pay their fair share,’ the commercial says.” [editor’s note: And when the billionaires leave (and defeat the ex post facto part of the proposal in court)? How much tax revenue evaporates THEN? – TLK] (02/21/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/california-politics/article/billionaire-tax-tv-ad-olympics-21618922.php