Wealth Tax Articles

In California, Organized Labor Might Just Defeat Itself

Yet another tax-the-rich initiative is running into reality. By WILL SWAIM An SEIU-backed measure to tax the global assets of California’s roughly 200 billionaires may be the rare progressive tax proposal defeated not by corporate money but by organized labor...

Discover What’s Driving California’s Tax Debate

A recent episode of the Radio Free California podcast features an in-depth discussion with Hoover Institution researchers Josh Rauh and Ben Jaros on California's proposed billionaire wealth tax and the unintended consequences they believe it could trigger. Beginning...

Wealth Tax News – 6/12/2026

This week's wealth tax developments span coast to coast and across the Atlantic: California's proposed billionaire tax faces mounting opposition from an unlikely coalition of labor unions, business groups, and medical interests as it heads toward the November ballot,...

Wealth Tax News – 6/7/2026

This week’s wealth-tax debate spanned from federal proposals to tax AI-driven wealth and close billionaire borrowing loopholes to broader calls for public ownership or stronger taxation of extreme wealth. California remained the focal point, as its proposed one-time...