"LIberal" San Francisco says taxes are only for the little people

San Francisco in the 2020s continues its streak of outdoing Phil Heimlich-era Cincinnati in its rightism.

Last week, there was a voter referendum in San Francisco that would have enacted a tax hike on highly paid corporate executives. You'd think that would have passed easily. But - after the city's painfully slow ballot counting process - it now appears as if the measure was rejected.

A measure like this would have no trouble at all passing in small Rust Belt towns, yet it gets rejected in a supposedly "liberal" big city like San Francisco.

The referendum was opposed by right-wing Mayor Daniel Lurie and a host of corporate opinion havers who spent zillions to defeat it. If the tax had passed, it would have generated as much as $300 million in revenues for the city.

But the thought police didn't want that, I guess. Because rich people have had everything so rough in life. The poor things.