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Billionaires spent nearly $400 million to sink California’s wealth tax — and the tax-the-rich side won all 3 income tax measures on the ballot

Billionaires spent nearly $400 million to sink California’s wealth tax — and the tax-the-rich side won all 3 income tax measures on the ballot
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Emmanuel Saez, a UC-Berkeley economist who studies inequality and helped design Proposition 40, lamented the loss, saying: “Today oligarchy has won.”

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