California Political Science Professor Gathers Signitures to Tax the Koch Brothers

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

To Peter Mathews, the political timing seems perfect. A gallon of gas costs more than $4, the five largest oil companies have made $30 billion in profits this year, and California's higher education system is losing at least $1.4 billion to help balance the state's gargantuan budget deficit.

The political science professor at Cypress College, a community college in Orange County, drove to UC Berkeley on Friday to begin gathering support for a ballot measure to tax oil companies on the petroleum they extract in California and send the money - about $2 billion a year - to public schools.

Professor Mathews levitates above class struggle, he is so altruistic working to raise taxes while he works at an institution subsidized by taxpayers.