• FullPenguin@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It sends a clear message: If you won’t pay your share, we don’t want you here.

    Once everyone collectively agrees that billionaires should pay their share, there will be nowhere left for them to run. It has to start somewhere.

    Republican states will never do that. They Iove billionaire boots. For many of them, being a tax haven is the only thing of benefit they can provide.

    Unless we overhaul the Interstate commerce act (an article I power… So unlikely) to limit their ability to do business or ship product to/from/through Blue states, we will lose in Federal Courts every single time.

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      8 days ago

      Good let them go. The businesses don’t go with them, you can’t take the property or the infrastructure. They leave, they leave it all behind, it gets broken up and sold off, everyone who matter wins

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        8 days ago

        Again, that’s not how this works.

        California can’t just seize corporate assets owned by multiple interested parties in order extract funds from one individual.

        That’s the whole issue with this toothless law, California can’t enforce it. Even if they’re able to seize a couple residences, the property in them, some vehicles, etc. There will be decades long court battles over those assets, and they still won’t add up to the hundreds of millions of dollars that a multi-billionaire would be responsible for under this tax.