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Gavin Newsom urges a national 'billionaires' tax' while fighting one in California (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

He knows it won't pass at the national level, so he doesn't mind supporting it in that case.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    There is that and the fact that it should be a national thing to shut down avoidance options.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    But we don't want them here and California, except for the billionaires and their lackeys and orange county and Fresno and certain undesirable transients plaguing sacramento is a genuinely wonderful place to live if you're not one of the fire-slaves or something.

    Fixing one of those problems would still be a success, and it would deny them something nice that they want. Which would also be nice.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Can also be in the sense that if you enact it in California then they can pick up and leave for Texas or Florida and still mess up the country’s politics but leave California without the ability to get any taxes from them. Whereas if you enact it nationwide then they’d have to skip the country entirely to dodge it which would be more difficult and not advantage states that don’t agree.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    No one really leaves. Pack up and move to a shithole flyover state? Yeah right.

    Oh and if I’m wrong? Good.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago

    There was a net internal migration of ~300k people out of California last year, some mega rich have moved too. Red states gaining population and money get boosted electoral college votes and more political influence to sway the entire country rather than just their own states. They’re not disappearing into a vacuum unfortunately.

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