Will a wealth tax work in Palo Alto? We might soon find out.

An Elizabeth Warren supporter has a plan for Palo Alto. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [View on the web]( [Recode]( [Click to view images]( [An Elizabeth Warren supporter moved to Palo Alto to make residents vote on a wealth tax]( Now that it looks like Elizabeth Warren's promise to impose a new tax on the wealthiest Americans won't happen nationally, one of her supporters is taking a more local approach. Kevin Creaven recently moved to Palo Alto with a plan: get voters to approve a ballot measure that would impose a city-wide wealth tax on the tech billionaires who live there. It makes a lot of sense. Palo Alto is one of America’s richest cities, and the local wealth tax could generate billions in new tax revenue. Creaven is even taking a page from Andrew Yang's campaign and specifying that some of the money brought in through the wealth tax would go back into the community in the form of $2,500 checks for every Palo Alto resident. Getting this plan passed won't be easy, however, as legal experts have doubts about the constitutionality of the proposal and local leaders have doubts about whether the citizens will vote for it. Recode's Teddy Schleifer talked to the activist behind Palo Alto's new proposed ballot measure as well as experts about this local twist on Elizabeth Warren's popular idea. [Click to view images]( [“I’m deeply ashamed”: Another Facebook employee resigned in protest over the company’s handling of Trump’s posts]( At least three have resigned in protest in the past week. [ Shirin Ghaffary / [Recode]( ] [Click to view images]( [How Google Docs became the social media of the resistance]( Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing software's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool. [ Tanya Basu / [MIT Technology Review]( ] [Click to view images]( [Amid pandemic and upheaval, new cyber risks to the presidential election]( Fear of the coronavirus is speeding up efforts to allow voting from home, but some of them pose security risks and may make it easier for Vladimir V. Putin, or others, to hack the vote. [ David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, and Matthew Rosenberg / [New York Times]( ] [Click to view images]( [The Tom Cotton op-ed affair shows why the media must defend America’s values]( It cannot remain neutral when those values are under threat from racialized authoritarianism. [ David Roberts / [Vox]( ] [Click to view images]( [Airbnb joins vacation-rental sites seeing surge in demand]( Antsy city dwellers seeking to escape their Covid-19 refuges are road-tripping to nearby vacation rentals in surprisingly strong numbers. [ Olivia Carville / [Bloomberg]( ] [This is Cool Section Title] [An oral history of the first feature film streamed over the internet]( [Facebook]( Twitter [Instagram]( [Recode by Vox]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences](, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving emails from Vox Media. View our [Privacy Notice]( and our [Terms of Service](. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved.