DiFuria described a billionaire family that went from feeling guilty about their spending to owning yachts and planes and moving to an area where other billionaires live.
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Molly A. Wallace,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2026
Opposition campaigns to the wealth tax as well as the two countermeasures have received enormous donations from several of the state’s billionaires.
Happy peasants, miserable millionaires Graham first spotted the pattern in China.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2026
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.
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.
Especially when your polling is no doubt telling you that progressives and anti-capitalists will struggle to trust any billionaire, however seemingly benign.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Oct. 2026
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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