Californias proposed billionaire tax gains majority support in new poll, with a partisan split on voter ID

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SACRAMENTO — A new poll shows California voters are sharply divided over two brewing statewide ballot measures stirring up the nation’s partisan and economic divides: a one-time tax on billionaires to pay for mostly healthcare and a voter ID mandate that includes citizenship verification.The survey conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by The Times showed 52% of registered voters supported the billionaire’s tax, while 33% said they opposed it.Fifteen percent were undecided.Support for the voter ID measure was more evenly split, with 44% of voters in support, 45% opposed and the remainder undecided.The pair of statewide proposals, which have yet to qualify for California’s November ballot, emanated from opposite sides of California’s political spectrum.

Organized labor and progressives are pushing hard for a new wealth tax in response to Republican cuts to federal healthcare programs, and the GOP-led call for additional voter restrictions comes in the wake of President Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.Poll director Mark DiCamillo said he “was a little surprised” by the results given how much attention each measure has already received.“Just from reading the press accounts of these initiatives, I thought they would both be well ahead.There’s been a lot of discussion about them and advocates seem to be very confident in their chances of passage, but the polls seem to indicate otherwise,” he said.

California Despite Democrats’ long reign in California, a poll shows two Republicans leading by slim margins in the race for governor as the June primary fast approaches.The divisions over each measure fell largely along partisan and ideological lines.On the billionaire’s tax initiative, 72% of Democratic voters said they would support the measure if the election were held today — and ...