Cristobal Young, a sociology professor at Cornell University, said previous California tax increases on millionaires didn't lead to a mass exodus of wealthy people.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Oct. 2026
The latest in a long series of corrective measures was a thirteen-per-cent state income tax on millionaires, which went into effect in 2012 and is due to expire in 2030.
Talarico, an Austin area state representative, has pitched himself as a candidate to bring Texans together —regardless of party — to take on billionaires and their influence in politics.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Oct. 2026
Adding to the surreal nature of the incident, Olson’s joke was about AI’s threat to jobs and how billionaires like Instagram’s parent company co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are complicit.
Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep. 2026
Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.
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Garance Burke,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2026
Thompson then warned that San Francisco venture capitalists like Jones want to sunset federal programs and privatize Social Security.
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