Ro Khanna
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first heard Dec 2024
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And that's the opportunity.
Ro, I had a question about the future political relationships of all these tech billionaires.
Now, you mentioned that you and Elon were friends.
A lot of these tech CEOs were seen more as liberal Democrats before the Trump era.
But now we see Zuckerberg, we see these AI CEOs cozying up to Trump.
Where do you think they go post-Trump?
Do you think that they will be sort of
always now marked as more conservative tech CEOs or will they flip back over and be good Democrats again if there's a Democrat in office?
There are opportunists.
I mean, some of them will play ball with whoever is in office.
But you're going to lose 30% of them if we take a real platform issue, which is a wealth tax.
If we're saying, look, we're going to tax these folks, then you're not going to get 30% of them.
There'll be some who either aren't billionaires or who get that we don't want revolution, who will be...
fine with that coalition, but you have to lose some of those folks.
And this is the basic fight I'm having with Gavin Newsom, where I've reported a 5% tax on 250 billionaires in California, so 3 million Californians don't lose health insurance.
He then is opposed to it, is leading the charge against it, because these 250 billionaires are important donors and
political contributors.
And he says, well, I'm for a national billionaire's tax, but he doesn't want to do what Bernie is talking about or I 5% tax on billionaires.
He doesn't even want to do what Warren is talking about, 3% tax.
He wants to just say, okay, they can't borrow against assets and should be taxed on that, which is exactly what the tech billionaires are proposing.
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