California to Enslave Billionaires with 5% Tax?
The greed of a high tax state is insatiable
By Richard Stevenson, October 24, 2025 3:55 pm
It is ironic that the radical California political left, that wants our state to pay slavery reparations for things that took place thousands of miles away and over a hundred and fifty years ago, now seek to impose slavery on current day wealthy Californians.
A bizarre ballot initiative was reported in the Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert of October 24, 2025 headed “New ballot initiative would levy a 5% tax on California’s billionaires,” with the shocking tagline of “If approved, the tax would be levied on billionaires who lived in California in 2025-2026, preventing the group from leaving the state.” That last phrase absolutely constitutes imposing slavery.
Background:
According to the article, the proposal is from the United Healthcare Workers West, an element of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The SEIU is made up of many locals, most of which are state and local government employees, and some of those locals are Marxist in actions and campaign financing, such as democrat socialist campaigns for public office. The SEIU has been quite shameless about using government tax money to finance political campaigns, until recently through forced contributions from all government employees. That blatant public rip off was finally stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court Janus ruling, not to be detailed here but linked.
Proceeds from the proposed tax would go to what is essentially Obamacare short comings and to “improve public education.”
Blatant Illegalities:
Federal courts have held that a state cannot not prevent a large, or any, taxpayer from leaving, such as when Rush Limbaugh moved from high tax New York to low tax Florida, the New York tax authorities tried to treat him as still a New Yorker for years, and were finally slapped down. California tax authorities tried to tax the sale of a boat that was sold on the Caribbean because it had formerly resided in California. The greed of a high tax state is insatiable.
A California ballot measure must be of a single subject under the state Constitution, therefore, this proposal of a billionaire’s tax to support both health subsidies and education is blatantly violates the state Constitution.
Slavery:
The concept of enslaving California billionaires to finance failing social programs by preventing billionaires from leaving California violates so many provisions of the United States and California Constitutions it is hard to count, let alone the statutes of each, and the associated case law.
Conclusion:
The California one party state is dominated by the radical left of the democrat party who feel they are exempt from all Constitutions, statutes, and decency.
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SO… please DO TELL which Demcrap legislator(s) are BEHIND this LATEST UNCONSTITUTIONAL legislative debacle!!!
We’ll wait….
The only way to defeat these cockroaches is to shine the light of truth on them good and bright…and maybe, just MAYBE wake up the low-information California voter who reflexively votes (D) because they believe the Democrat party GASLIGHTING….
The primary Democratic figures behind the new ballot initiative to levy a 5% tax on California’s billionaires are Dave Regan, president of Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), and Economics Professor Emmanuel Saez from UC, Berkeley.
Yes, @TJ. Saez is a dual-citizen (France-USA) Marxist-Keynesian economist born in Spain. The economy of France is a disaster and so is Spain’s. So, why would anyone besides leftist demagogues like Regan listen to him? Btw, why do we allow dual citizenship….is there an economic or other benefit to divided loyalty?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Saez
If they donated to “Yes on 50” they deserve it ! Totally too cute.
They love a one party state so the billionaires can run “the big stuff”, while our rutted county roads rattle the tires off our cars! Show them who’s boss – send them back their money! LOL!
Oh, look! Another squad of pigs flying overhead in formation!
With technology, you don’t have to be physically present to run a company anymore. Billionaires can live out of state, or they can just move their company to another state with a more favorable business climate, which is already happening.
Kiss my @ss, Communists.
The Janus ruling is specific to collecting union dues (or fees) from non-union members and was a First Amendment case. This tax on a portion of the population seems to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment……since the tax singles out a specific group, imo.
For these reasons, States and public-sector unions may no longer
extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees. The First
Amendment is violated when money is taken from nonconsenting
employees for a public-sector union; employees must choose to sup-
port the union before anything is taken from them. Accordingly, nei-
ther an agency fee nor any other form of payment to a public-sector
union may be deducted from an employee, nor may any other attempt
be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively
consents to pay. Pp. 48–49
Here’s what ChatGpt says about the constitutionality of this proposed ballot initiative:
In short: Yes — there are serious constitutional issues with this proposed initiative (especially the residency/anti-departure language), but no, it does not automatically violate the 13th Amendment’s prohibition of slavery or involuntary servitude. The more feasible constitutional challenge will come under the right to travel / freedom of movement and potentially equal protection or the interstate commerce clause (if the measure effectively penalizes departure).
It’s unconstitutional today, but if the Dems steal another national election, they will pack the Supreme Court with far-left activists who will eviscerate all constitutional protections that stand in the way of the Party’s agenda.
Leftist rich and successful people should remember:
–“The revolution always eats its own.”
All rich and successful people should remember:
–“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” Winston Churchill
Those who rant about taxing the rich always manage to foist it on the middle class. Does anyone seriously think Nancy Pelosi or Bernie Sanders are going to pay 90% tax to any government? How about the rich who fund their campaigns and leftist agenda, they’re certainly not afraid of being disposessed. What will happen with a leftist takeover is the usefull idiots on the bottom will be rounded up with those who can’t or won’t be reeducated and be eliminated, the regime won’t need rabble rousing troublemakers. Meanwhile, “the rich” who make the revolution possible will be living like sultans as they are part of the “oligarchy” that Sanders and Ocosio Cortez endlessly babble about. Propagandist projection at its finest.
CA is run not be “radical left Democraps, they are straight up Communist filth who think they are the law and can do whatever they want. These POS are exactly what this countries founders were afraid of and fought a war to prevent! It appears that Patriots will be needed to do the job of destroying Communist filth again shortly.