California could become the first State to tax billionaires' wealth
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of Californians whose net worth exceeds $1 billion, with most of the revenue dedicated to replacing federal funding cuts to healthcare
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[Claude] Report 2 gives the specific details (Proposition 40, one-time 5% tax on net worth over $1 billion) of the same California billionaire wealth tax measure in Report 1, and nothing in it conflicts with R
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