Billionaire tax: how a union leader’s ‘crazy’ idea became the defining issue of California’s midterms
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- The Guardian US reports: “It was an ambitious notion – now Californians will vote on a one-time 5% billionaire tax, and state’s super rich have pulled out all the stops in oppositionOne year ago, the idea of a billionaire t…”
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