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Only 6 billionaires left California over its proposed wealth tax — but they took $27 billion in potential revenue with them

Six billionaires left California to avoid a proposed 5% wealth tax, reducing expected revenue by $27 billion, about a quarter of the tax’s projected $100 billion haul.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin alone account for $25 billion of that lost revenue — and billionaires are now funding a campaign to kill the tax entirely.

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governing.com broke the news in on Monday, March 16, 2026.
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