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Richard Harpin: Wealth Tax Would Devastate UK Businesses
Entrepreneur Richard Harpin warns wealth tax would devastate UK businesses and cause wealthy exodus.
MoneyWeek · 1m

California votes on first-ever wealth tax for billionaires
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on people worth over a billion dollars, but Democrats in the state are divided on whether it works.
NPR · 2m

Wealthiest Angelenos: A Wealth of Uncertainty
California's proposed 5% wealth tax sparks billionaire exodus as election nears.
Los Angeles Business Journal · 1m

California's billionaire tax sparks wealth tax debate
Proposition 40 would tax billionaires' assets once, but opponents fear it opens the door to taxing all Californians.
Fortune · 1m

Democrats and billionaires unite against California wealth tax
Top Democratic leaders join the ultra-rich in opposing Proposition 40, a first-in-the-nation tax on billionaire wealth ahead of California's November vote.
ABC News · 2m
Greens pledge free public transport for election
Green Party promises free public transport for students and low fares to tackle cost of living crisis.
RNZ · 1m

The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
California voters will decide if a billionaire wealth tax passes in November 2026.
The New Yorker · 1m

The wealthy aren't leaving after all
High-tax states keep gaining millionaires despite predictions they would flee, IRS data shows.
Fortune · 3m

California Voters Back Billionaire Tax
California voters support billionaire tax but it lacks majority approval.
NBC News · 2m

Nobel economists back California's billionaire wealth tax
Six Nobel Prize winners say Prop 40 could spark a global movement to tax the ultra-wealthy.
Fortune · 1m

Why wealth taxes are political theater
Economists reject wealth taxes as costly failures, but politicians push them anyway to look tough on the rich.
MoneyWeek · 4m