S.F. Standard Quotes Professor Shanske on Union Support of 'Billionaire Tax'

Professor Darien Shanske spoke to The San Francisco Standard for a June 9 story about how labor groups are divided on California’s “billionaire tax” November ballot initiative.

Shanske helped draft the initiative, which would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the state’s billionaires to support health care and other state services hurt by federal cuts.

Darien Shanske is a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis. His academic interests include taxation, particularly state and local taxation, local government law, public finance, and political theory, particularly jurisprudence.

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