Valuy@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoGavin Newsom urges a national 'billionaires' tax' while fighting one in Californiawww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down14
arrow-up1128arrow-down1external-linkGavin Newsom urges a national 'billionaires' tax' while fighting one in Californiawww.theguardian.comValuy@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareCorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoBillionaires and millionaires generally like being around infrastructure and companies. Something that only left leaning states tend to excel at. They have not been shown to leave in any great enough amount to actually matter. Unless you have something other than just 6 billionaires leaving CA?
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI don’t know the tax laws, but how many can set up their “primary” address in some other state (like Wyoming, which has the county with the wealthiest income in the country) and dodge all/most of California’s taxes?
minus-squareJax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoNothing has happened yet and 6 billionaires have already left California as a result.
minus-squareCorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago6 is nothing in a state like CA.
Billionaires and millionaires generally like being around infrastructure and companies. Something that only left leaning states tend to excel at.
They have not been shown to leave in any great enough amount to actually matter. Unless you have something other than just 6 billionaires leaving CA?
I don’t know the tax laws, but how many can set up their “primary” address in some other state (like Wyoming, which has the county with the wealthiest income in the country) and dodge all/most of California’s taxes?
Nothing has happened yet and 6 billionaires have already left California as a result.
6 is nothing in a state like CA.