The Billionaire Tax sounds good — until you look – Latest News
The “billionaire tax” has certified for the poll, in accordance with the union organizers who launched it. It could lose in November. It could also be thrown out by the courts.
It is already hurting California.
Almost as quickly because the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West launched its signature drive, many of the state’s billionaires moved out of California.
It wasn’t laborious for them. Most already owned real estate in different states, or had business pursuits there — states like Texas and Florida (which handle to supply for residents with out an income tax, not to mention a seizure of wealth).
Trillions in wealth left California. And billions of {dollars} in future income, which is able to no longer fill our state’s coffers, for use (we’re informed) for important public providers, particularly for the poor.
Here’s one thing many people don’t know. Billionaires are already taxed in California — extremely.
The high 1% of earners in California pay nearly 50% of the income tax for all the state — which is dependent upon income taxes for its finances.
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Bernie Sanders — who shouldn’t be from California — likes to say billionaires ought to pay their “fair share.”
Well, if we have been to charge billionaires their “fair share,” they’d get a huge tax cut.
There’s a sinister aspect to the billionaire tax — a resentment of success and of wealth, which is completely overseas to California.
Small surprise that the “billionaire tax” shouldn’t be initially a native thought. It is imported from Europe, through UC Berkeley.
Two economists particularly helped encourage it. One is Emmanuel Saez; the opposite is Gabriel Zucman.
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Both are initially from France — a good place to go to, however not precisely a paragon of prosperity.
For many years, France had a model of the billionaire tax. Called the “solidarity tax,” it focused a wider vary of rich people — these with belongings better than 1.3 million Euros.
Wealthy people merely left the nation — by the tens of 1000’s.
In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron repealed the tax.
That hasn’t deterred the far-left — nor SEIU chief Dave Regan, who dragged California into a struggle that many fellow union leaders quietly didn’t need.
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Regan arrived from the post-industrial Rust Belt and apparently determined that what California needed was more of the distress that many as soon as moved west to flee.
The subsequent step might be to tax the wealth of the center class — and even that gained’t be enough to pay for the ballooning price of public health care.
Chasing away billionaires who invest and create jobs will make issues even tougher for middle-class Californians, more of whom must depart to seek out alternatives elsewhere.
A wiser method would do two issues.
First, we should always look for methods to cut the prices of health care. That means preventing the legal professionals and different entrenched particular pursuits.
Second, as a substitute of taking away the wealth of billionaires, we must be making an attempt to make more of them — and to keep them right here.
The more people know in regards to the “billionaire tax,” the much less they prefer it.
Now is the time to put the information earlier than the voters — earlier than it’s too late.
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