Laura Nelson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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And polling shows that across a number of states across the country, including in California.
It is a fascinating coalition of people opposing it, including the current governor, Governor Gavin Newsom, and the leading Democratic Party candidate to replace Newsom, a man named Javier Becerra.
There is a broad coalition of groups that have come out in opposition to the tax.
That includes the California Teachers Association, Planned Parenthood of California, and the California Medical Association, which is an industry group that represents thousands of doctors in the state.
So groups that have ties to both health care and labor that are creating distance between themselves and this health care union that's backing them.
the tax.
Only a handful of prominent people have come out in support of the billionaire tax.
That includes Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, as well as Senator Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont.
Well, the governor has been against it since it was first introduced and actually has always generally been opposed to wealth taxes on assets.
He has said that there's a great risk that billionaires will leave the state, places like Florida, places like Texas, places like Tennessee, where you can get a lot more value for your money and you won't be subject to this kind of tax.
That is an idea that is hotly debated.
It's hard to know where people actually pay taxes.
So it's sometimes difficult to say this state is their residence.
This state is not their residence.
But my sources are telling me that there are a number of California billionaires that are considering it.
And some very high profile, high net worth billionaires have already started making moves to create distance between themselves and the state.
There is a growing
conversation about what a change in the federal tax structure would need to look like.
Governor Newsom in California has said that he actually supports a national reform to the tax structure because he thinks that there's no other way to really tackle the question of
inequality in the tax system.
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