Bernie Sanders is coming to Los Angeles to campaign for a proposed “billionaires tax” that has set off an uproar in the Silicon Valley and led to divisions among Democrats. Sanders has been railing for decades against the gap between rich and poor. Now he's scheduled an afternoon rally on Wednesday near downtown Los Angeles. The tax proposal has not qualified for the ballot so far. The proposal calls for imposing a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires to backfill federal health funding cuts for lower-income people. The proposal has created a rift between Gov. Gavin Newsom and prominent members of his party’s progressive wing ahead of the fall's midterm elections.
