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Tax billionaires out of existence.

The rich get taxed and the poor get healthcare.

No.

Stop turning oligarchy into a horse race. Deeply slanted pro-billionaire bullshit. NPR could do better, but will always do this, instead, because management is captured by the donor class.

Didn't click the link, but is the entire article "NOPE!" in one-billion-point Helvetica?

Actually, I don't think they ever did care. The ones that set up philanthropic funds mostly did so only to prevent having it be taxed. It was only accidental that those funds helped other less fortunate people.

I mean, billionaires leaving the state would be a start, but it would be better if they left the planet.

Make them millionaires!

They won’t. They didn’t leave Massachusetts when we passed Fair Share. They just threaten to leave so you don’t make them pay their fair share of taxes.

Democracy doesn't work when a few people have enough money to buy elections, politicians, and even competing businesses. It just doesn't.

Nope. We are lucky to still have democracy in our state 

The mega-rich don't want to pay taxes because its unfair? They have restructured their income so income taxes don't apply and now they cry a tax on their billions of dollars of assets isn't fair? Why don't they suggest a fair tax - and it isn't "billionaires don't pay". Be a patriot pay your share.

lol no

The billionaires put over a hundred million into a PAC to fight this…

Until they see how shitty the infrastructure and weather is in all the idiot states of America. They're money can't make AL or MS any less shitty of a dank swamp to live in.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

No, just like every time the rich bitch about something in California. We're all waiting for them to abandon the state and it keeps not happening for some reason

A person working a minimum wage job does more for the economy than any billionaire could because the money they earn is spent. As a Californian, my only problem with this is it's incredibly inadequate in attempts to reverse the harm caused by billionaires.

No. They will not leave the state. They will just pay lawmakers to grant them better tax shelters to hide their income to avoid paying the taxes. They are only rich when it impresses people. They are poor when they have to help.

It will suffer the same way that wealthy NYC residents will flee the city... Not...at...all.

Will billionaires leave California if wealth tax passes? Yes. Will billionaires leave California if wealth tax doesn't pass? Also yes. Because there is a possibility that California will try again. And no one believes this would be "one time".

Imagining a future where DC is bankrupt & Congress moves to Sacramento and perform East Coast/West Coast rap battles on the House floor 🤣🤣🤣

No.

no, they won’t — they never do — but good riddance if they did those parasites totally distort your economy

No. The economy will be just fine and so will the oligarchs.

No. The answer is no.

NPR: will the economy suffer if billionaires are taxed a tiny one time percentage of their hoarded wealth????

No. That's the answer to the question you've asked.

No, the economy will thrive, why? Because thing that make life better for everyone REDUCE CRIME. BILLIONAIRES ARE PARASITIC.

No. It's time we do more. Billionaires must pay their fair share or move elsewhere if their candy asses don't like it. How much money do you really need feeding your ego? How much money can you spend? You have enough for a thousand lifetimes. Dudes! You're gonna die anyway, like everyone else.

Answer: who cares?

No. There, saved you a few minutes of reading.

Texas. If they leave they will follow Musk to the lone Star State, which is being sold out to the highest bidders as we speak.

Only one way to find out.

Why is NPR simping for billionaires? It was already pathetic seeing the two-sided fascism articles and now this! NPR has really fallen off since it realized it had to dance in hopes of getting any money and couldn’t just do good journalism anymore

Why would the economy suffer? In the 1950s, the top tax rate was 90%, and that era produced the biggest economic expansion in, well, ever. Admittedly, my knowledge of history only goes back to late antiquity, but I can’t think of anything like it in the past 1000 years. Let’s try that again.

Newsom is against the wealth tax. Negates a lot of the positive aspects of his tenure.

No. Next question

"Will the state's economy suffer if extraordinarily rich people are required to participate in civil society at a level commensurate with their unfathomably lavish wealth?" Give me a fucking break. They profit off our backs; time to pay up or GTFO.