A rare backroom deal in Sacramento that helps taxpayers
The billionaire tax is on the ballot. There will be no backroom deal to keep it off. The fact that the SEIU’s Dave Regan even tried to use the billionaire tax as negotiating leverage to force other changes shows how cynical the union bosses have become. They treat the rest of us as pawns. Gavin...
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Opinion A rare backroom deal in Sacramento that helps taxpayers By CA Post Editorial Board Published June 26, 2026, 8:17 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The California Post on Google The billionaire tax is on the ballot. There will be no backroom deal to keep it off. The fact that the SEIU’s Dave Regan even tried to use the billionaire tax as negotiating leverage to force other changes shows how cynical the union bosses have become. They treat the rest of us as pawns. Gavin Newsom did nothing to stop the billionaire tax, or even to oppose it. Sure, he claimed he was against it. What he really opposed was all the billionaires fleeing to other states. On Friday, he proposed a nationwide billionaire tax, so California’s rich would have nowhere else to go.
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