美国进步派选民心目中的英雄、参议员伯尼·桑德斯周一在南加州为11月加州选票上的第40号提案（一项财富税提案）站台助选，该提案已引发数亿美元的竞选开支。
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a hero among the nation's progressive voters, stumped in Southern California on Monday for a wealth tax on the California ballot in November that has drawn hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending.
“向全国上下、海岸到海岸的民众展示了：是的，我们可以向寡头的贪婪发起挑战，”桑德斯（佛蒙特州，无党籍）表示，他称第40号提案是全国最重要的投票议题。“是的，我们可以建立一个为我们所有人服务、而非仅为那1%精英服务的经济和政府。”
“What you are showing people from coast to coast and all over is that, yes, we can take on the greed of the oligarchs,” said Sanders (I-Vt.), who called Proposition 40 the most important ballot measure in the country. “Yes, we can create an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.”
桑德斯点名了包括SpaceX的埃隆·马斯克、Meta的马克·扎克伯格和谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖·布林在内的亿万富翁科技创始人，每提到一个名字，聚集在洛杉矶市中心Novo剧场的观众中就爆发出一阵嘘声。
Sanders name-checked billionaire tech founders including Elon Musk of SpaceX, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, whose mentions were repeatedly met with boos from the crowd gathered at the Novo in downtown Los Angeles.
工会领袖周一早些时候在拉帕尔马的一个工会培训设施发言时辩称，尽管这项亿万富翁税被宣传为针对该州最富有居民资产的一次性征税，但其中包含一个漏洞，将允许州立法者对所有加州居民的储蓄、退休账户和住房净值征税。
Labor leaders, speaking earlier on Monday at a union training facility in La Palma, argued that although the billionaires tax is billed as a one-time tax on the assets of the state's wealthiest residents, it includes a loophole that would allow state lawmakers to tax the savings and retirement accounts and home equity of all Californians.
“在技工行业，我们懂得必须看蓝图、必须看细则，”加州及周边地区钢铁工人地区委员会政治主任索奇特尔·梅德拉诺说道。梅德拉诺身边围绕着高呼“反对40号提案！”的工会工人。
"In the trades, we know you always read the blueprints and you always read the fine print," said Xochitl Medrano, the political director for the district council of the Ironworkers of the State of California and Vicinity. Medrano was surrounded by union workers chanting, "No on 40!"
“我们的工人不是亿万富翁；他们是劳动人民。经过20年、30年甚至40年在工地上累断背的奋斗，我们的会员才有机会获得体面的养老金、一些退休储蓄，以及他们辛苦偿还贷款的住房净值，”她说。“这不是白白得到的财富。这是汗水换来的股权。……我们不会袖手旁观，让一项本应针对亿万富翁的税收变成针对劳动家庭的陷阱。”第40号提案是11月3日选票上最具争议的议题之一。
"Our workers are not billionaires; they are working people. After 20, 30, or even 40 years of breaking their backs on the job sites, our members have the opportunity to have a decent pension, some retirement savings, and equity in a home that they've been working to pay off," she said. "That's not wealth handed to them. That's sweat equity. ... We won't stand by and let a tax that's supposed to target billionaires turn into a trap door for working families." Proposition 40 is among the most contentious issues on the Nov. 3 ballot.
该措施由一个医疗工会起草，旨在抵消国会共和党批准、特朗普总统于去年签署的高达1000亿美元的联邦医疗资金即将到来的削减。数百万加利福尼亚人可能因此失去医疗保险。十一月选票上有两项对立措施——第41号提案和第42号提案——如果其中任何一项获得的票数更多，就会废除这项亿万富翁税。根据加州大学伯克利分校和《洛杉矶时报》于9月下旬进行的一项民调，约45%的可能选民支持第40号提案，42%反对，13%未决定。
The measure was crafted by a healthcare union to offset $100 billion in impending federal healthcare funding cuts approved by congressional Republicans and signed by President Trump last year. Millions of Californians could lose their healthcare coverage because of those cuts. There are two opposing measures on the November ballot, Propositions 41 and 42, that would nullify the billionaires tax if either receives more votes. About 45% of likely voters supported Proposition 40, while 42% opposed it and 13% were undecided in a late September poll by UC Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times.
与六周前的一项民调相比，支持率有所下降，当时48%的可能选民支持，41%反对。该提案已吸引超过3亿美元的竞选捐款，几乎全部用于反对它。投票提案不受竞选捐款上限的限制。桑德斯与众议员罗·卡纳（民主党，弗里蒙特）以及包括说唱歌手Common在内的艺术家一同出席，Common在即兴说唱段落间呼吁“让那些亿万富翁掏钱”。
That’s a decline in support compared with a poll six weeks earlier, when 48% of likely voters supported it while 41% opposed it. The proposal has drawn more than $300 million in campaign contributions, nearly all against it. Ballot measures are not subject to caps on campaign donations. Sanders was joined by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) and artists including the rapper Common, who called for “them billionaires to pay up” between freestyle verses.
以奥巴马总统著名肖像闻名的谢泼德·费雷揭幕了支持财富税运动的横幅，作为活动舞台的背景。集会参与者达托莎·威廉姆斯是SEIU-UHW成员，从事医疗客户服务工作，她表示第40号提案是联邦医疗削减的后盾，后者可能导致全州医院关闭。“我最大的担心是看到一些同事失业，”她说，“我最大的担心是我8岁患哮喘的儿子在急诊室要长时间等待。”
Shepard Fairey, known for his famous portrait of President Obama, unveiled banners in support of the wealth tax campaign, which served as a backdrop on the event stage. Rally attendee Datosha Williams, an SEIU-UHW member who works in healthcare customer service, said Proposition 40 is a backstop to federal healthcare cuts, which could lead to hospital closures around the state. “My biggest fear is that I will see some of my coworkers lose their jobs," she said. "My biggest fear is that my 8-year-old son, who is asthmatic, will have long waits in an ER."
在拉帕尔马的钢铁工人培训中心，工会领袖组织了一场反对财富税的活动，学徒们参加了关于索具和集体谈判权利的研讨会。“我们不反对让富人支付他们应尽的份额。
At the event at the Ironworkers Training Center in La Palma organized by labor leaders to oppose the wealth tax, apprentices attended workshops about rigging and collective bargaining rights. "We're not opposed to making the wealthy pay their fair share.
“我们并不反对为加州民众打造一个高质量且低成本的医疗保险计划，”洛杉矶与橙县建筑行业工会理事会代表安德鲁·冈萨雷斯说道，“只是我们认为第40号提案并非实现这一目标的合适途径。”冈萨雷斯指出，加州预算状况极不稳定，且高度依赖富人群的纳税贡献；由于该提案的存在，部分富人已主动搬离加州。“这已经对州预算产生了直接影响，”他说道，“因此我们早已预见可能出现的风险。”
We're not opposed to creating a high-quality and low-cost health insurance plan for Californians," said Andrew Gonzales, the council representative for the Los Angeles and Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council. "We just don't think Prop. 40 is the right vehicle to go about that." Gonzales pointed to the volatile state budget's dependence on tax revenue from wealthy Californians, some of whom have proactively moved out of the state because of the proposal. "That's already having an immediate impact to the state's budget," he said. "So we already see the danger that can occur."