California’s proposed ‘billionaire tax’ fails to pass
California voters rejected Proposition 40, the one-time 5% tax on billionaires, the AP reported Monday.
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- Tech leaders outspent backers roughly 10 to 1 to defeat it, and the founders and economists TechCrunch interviewed before the vote were split on whether it would have driven out wealthy residents or just trimmed their fortunes.
The novel proposal would have charged billionaires a one-time 5% tax on most of their overall wealth, including their ownership in companies.
The proposed measure would have imposed a one-time 5 percent tax on Californian billionaires to fund healthcare.
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