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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Mark Kreidler

California’s Billionaire Tax Should Be Just the Starting Point

Economist Gabriel Zucman and his new book We Need to Tax Billionaires.

California’s ultrarich clearly hate the idea of a one-time, 5% tax on their wealth as part of the state’s attempt to backfill the sudden loss of billions of dollars in federal funding for safety net programs like Medi-Cal.

How might they feel about a 2% tax that lasts forever?

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