Becerra said that plan contained loopholes that would amount to major tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2026
According to a Fiscal Policy Institute analysis of IRS Statistics of Income data, the states with the most progressive tax systems have the highest concentration of millionaires per filer in the country.
Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.
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Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
25 Sep. 2026
But a first-of-its-kind study of hundreds of contested trust cases offers a rare look at the circumstances that can send heirs to court.
In this case, that’s made easier by the wealth of Kraft and the other venue owners who did not want Macklemore on their stages, along with populist anger at billionaires.
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Kenneth L. Marcus,
New York Daily News,
25 Sep. 2026
With no fair government review, this fight pits individual families against corporations and billionaires with in-house legal teams, powerful lobbyists and endless public relations resources.
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