Clarification: my concern here has nothing to do with whether high taxes are ethical or good/bad for society. It's that: 1) moving within the country has always been trivially easy for wealthy people 2) California's COVID response forcibly decoupled work from physical location
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Whatever you think of a federal wealth tax, the debate has always meaningfully hinged on whether it causes capital flight. The people who would pay the bulk of this tax already have secondary residences in their favorite places, and they've been working remotely for months now.
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California has a very challenging needle to thread with its massive anticipated budget shortfalls and already exceptionally high state taxes. I see massive federal bailouts in the future.
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An exercise for the reader: look at this list of the wealthiest Californians, calculate their annual obligations under a 0.4% wealth tax, and think about how many of them run companies that're already widely geographically distributed & increasingly remotehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/04/07/with-more-billionaires-than-most-countries-californias-richest-attempt-to-step-up-to-fight-the-coronavirus/amp/ …
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Makes it even more bizarre that they've excluded the one asset that *can't* be moved out of state.
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I'm very curious about the effects of Larry Ellison, etc., having to come up with $236m in cash.
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This is how we go full Detroit if this passes. I think is the final straw for most folks if enacted
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The exodus is already well underway. COVID took a *lot* of teams largely or fully remote. A lot of CEOs & execs have been experimenting with WFH in more rural parts of the state or beyond, part-time or full. Thanks to COVID, there's never been a greater sense of flexibility.
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