Pop Your Corn: It's Billionaire Vs. Billionaire for the Future of California
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- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); First, the basics.
- ▪California Proposition 40 is billed as a one-time 5% tax on all wealth over ONE BILLION DOLLARS retroactive to Jan.
- ▪So if you're a billionaire who moved to Florida or Texas after that date, you're still on the hook should the measure pass.
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| Original publisher | PJ Media |
| Canonical URL | https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/08/17/pop-your-corn-its-billionaire-vs-billionaire-for-the-future-of-california-n4956221 |
| Publication time | Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:34:00 -0400 |
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Pop Your Corn: It's Billionaire Vs. Billionaire for the Future of California Stephen Green | 10:34 AM on August 17, 2026 AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File Disagreements between a couple of Google billionaires over how to best fight California's so-called billionaire tax might just help the ballot initiative become law in November, according to a New York Post report this weekend — but there's so much more to it than that. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); First, the basics. California Proposition 40 is billed as a one-time 5% tax on all wealth over ONE BILLION DOLLARS retroactive to Jan. 1, 2026.
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