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Re: Prop K > The idea of taxing Amazon for guaranteed income was popular: the tax polled at 74% support, according to its supporters, and received more than tw

Re: Prop K > The idea of taxing Amazon for guaranteed income was popular: the tax polled at 74% support, according to its supporters, and received more than twice the necessary amount of signatures. What I don't comprehend is how these actions by regulators, while obviously popular, actually help people get elected. I don't understand why unelected regulators would be doing low-information nonsense at all.

legitster 4y ago
The story itself is kind of wild in Prop K's case: https://sfstandard.com/politics/san-francisco-housing-todco-amazon-tax-prop-k-guaranteed-income/ https://sfstandard.com/politics/san-francisco-housing-todco-... >“I never imagined that their cloud services or Prime video are more revenue than all the stuff I buy from them,” Elberling said. “I never imagined that to be true.”