“Newsom does not want to tax billionaires,” said the Billionaire Tax Now campaign, “but he wants you to think he does.”…

Campaigners behind the one-time 5% billionaires wealth tax in California are calling out what they describe as trickery and deception by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who on Friday released a proposal for a national billionaire’s income tax even as he actively opposes the effort to tax the wealth of billionaires in the state that he and his party currently control. “Newsom does not want to…

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