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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 month ago

Panic sweeps across California over proposed billionaire tax - Tech moguls and moderate Democrats are mobilizing their wealth and networks to try to block it

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Panic sweeps across California over proposed billionaire tax - Tech moguls and moderate Democrats are mobilizing their wealth and networks to try to block it

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  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
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    If they are all against it, it has to be the right move

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    These poor poor babies are panicking over a one time tax Its not even annual. That’s bullpoop.

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      It’s a precedent. More taxes will come if first goes through and they know it.

      • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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        True. Hopefully it will start more taxes across the nation. Shit, let’s globalize the wealth tax!

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    Maybe we stop calling them “moderates”?

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      MINOs.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    Sweeps across? How many billionaires are there in CA? Surely not more than a thousand?

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      According to Wikipedia: The World’s Billionaires, there are 3,428 billionaires in the world.

      According to Fortune, there are 928 billionaires in the USA.

      According to California Billionaire Wealth Tracker there are 250 billionaires in California. This number fluctuates from 248 to 255 depending on their investments and how many private jet flights they take to Epstein Island 2.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        So… 250 people and their immediate beneficiaries panicking. In a sane world, that wouldn’t make anything but local headlines. And instead we see that it could impact whether people get food and medicine half way around the world.

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        Sources without even asking , thank you!

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    Dunno, maybe tax them into bankruptcy, maybe?! Fuckin’ leeches, every single one of 'em. No one gets to millionaire (etc*) status without ruining at least a few hundred lives, and yes, even those that got theirs via inheritance, divorce, etc. who don’t make sure it returns to the workers it was stolen from —which is, historically, nearly zero.

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      I think you mean billionaire. You need to be a multi millionaire to own a house here lol

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        Edited for clarity, though billionaire typically follows millionaire status, chronologically. I’m all for the reverse, and then some.

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    Time to dine in the rich my friends. Fuck these morons!

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    its also a one time tax, newsome is trying to make it national in the hopes it will get defeated in congress.

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