If billionaires are not going to change their behavior when taxed in such a fashion — in this case by leaving California — then there is no reason to not dun them next year in the same fashion and every year thereafter.
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Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
2 Nov. 2026
Florida should belong to the people who live here, not billionaires with cushy coastal vacation homes or corporations chasing a tax haven.
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Cameron Driggers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Nov. 2026
These early plutocrats made their fortunes on immovable assets — gold, land, oil, the natural riches of California.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 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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