The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), representing San Francisco government workers, is concealing the reality behind its Proposition D tax proposal. While presenting itself as a populist group focused on reallocating wealth from billion-dollar firms, the SEIU fails to disclose that this redistribution would primarily benefit the union itself.
The SEIU is the primary financial backer of this tax because the resulting revenue would be directed to the San Francisco government, where nearly half of all expenditures are used for the compensation and benefits of employees of whom nearly half are SEIU members. A genuine interest in redistributing wealth would have led the SEIU to suggest a tax with a much broader distribution of proceeds.
When its populist facade is removed, the SEIU is revealed to be nothing more than a commercial entity that generates its income from government outlays.
