Controversy Surrounds New Amazon Tax?

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After spending almost half a million dollars to place Proposition K on the ballot, the measure’s proponents—affordable housing organization TODCO and its director, John Elberling—sought the court’s approval to remove the tax measure from the November ballot. The proponents course-corrected on Proposition K after critics revealed that the measure would primarily tax small businesses and not Amazon as they initially intended. Despite the judge’s decision to toss the measure, critics say the Proposition K diabolical highlights the complicated yet absurd nature of the City’s ballot measure process that allows political interest groups to place poorly written measures on the ballot.