With food benefit cuts looming in the US, Californians eye billionaire tax

2026-05-10 16:56 UTC

Greer Dove’s days are packed with studying business and finance, as well as doing administrative work at college, along with caring for her eight-year-old daughter with special needs. But once a week, Dove, a single mother, makes sure to drop in at the food bank in California’s Marin County to pick up vegetables, fruit and other food. Along with the federal government’s food benefits, they keep her housing running. “We need this so we can keep functioning at a high level,” she says. “She loves fruit, so I make sure to get it,” she says of her daughter. Dove, who is also looking for a full-time job, has worked in restaurants, event management, retail, television shows, office administration and payroll over the years. But she has been on the federal government’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) for six years, and with the food bank, for more than three years. Before she got food benefits, Dove fed her daughter all she had and skipped meals or looked around for snacks in the offices she worked at to get her through the day.

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@devolution@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 19:24

If calling for a billionaire tax is hate speech, then I am an out and proud fucking bigot. Starving children to make white men and pick me Indians fat and fed. Fuck them. Edit: Please explain to me why Rick Scott, who grew up in poverty on this shit is so hellbent on pulling up the ladder behind him...

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@10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip 2026-05-10 19:39

But we spend trillions on murdering people in foreign countries and flexing. If only we could find the money for Healthcare, education, and feeding the hungry. Oh well, guess its time to spend hundreds of millions on giant ballroom for a giant D.

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@BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 14:27

If this becomes a State's rights thing we are probably going to see some more horrible shit in the South. People don't really talk about what generational wealth really means down here. Chattel slavery is their God given right. Jim Crow was their -meet you in the middle". They believe they have been the victim of the largest property theft of all time.

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@panthera_@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 19:41

It's not going to work. Billionaires will simply leave California resulting in less tax revenue.

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