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加州州长加文·纽瑟姆呼吁对亿万富翁征收全国最低税率，并设立一项联邦基金，让每个美国人都能分享人工智能创造的财富。他在周五发表于Substack平台的一篇文章中提出了一项民粹主义经济议程。
与此同时，正在考虑2028年总统竞选的纽瑟姆宣布，他将投票反对今年11月加州投票提案中的亿万富翁财富税。
他针对美国最富有人群提出的联邦税方案，他称之为“对亿万富翁的真正最低税——一项现代化的巴菲特规则”，确保最顶层人群缴纳的税率至少不低于他们自己的员工所缴纳的税率。
“如今，办公室职员承担的税率可能比女继承人更高，”纽瑟姆说。“建筑工人的税率可能比开发商更高。而送货司机最终缴纳的税率，甚至可能比他所递送包裹所属公司的创始人还要高。”
他将此归咎于一个“数十年来由游说议员起草、由清楚知晓自己服务对象的政客们维持的漏洞体系”。
“但这个体系可以被推翻，”纽瑟姆写道。
一天前，由工会支持的州级亿万富翁税提案获得了加州投票资格。纽瑟姆表示，他反对该提案的部分原因是，对超级富豪征税不应由州级政府推进，而应由联邦政府负责。他指出，亿万富翁可以轻易搬迁以规避单一州的税收，因此这场税收战理应在联邦层面展开——“这个失灵的体系最初正是在联邦层面形成的”。
据《洛杉矶时报》报道，一些总部位于加州的亿万富翁可能已经在采取措施搬迁至佛罗里达等避税天堂——马克·扎克伯格、拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林等科技巨头都一直在这座阳光之州购置房产。
纽瑟姆还反对加州的亿万富翁税提案，因为该提案的收入主要将用于资助州医疗补助计划的支出，而非其他亟需领域。
“它忽视了我们的公立学校，”纽瑟姆写道，并表示加州的这项提案还会忽略女性健康诊所、住房和儿童保育等需求。
他坚持认为，加州预算的决策主体应该是州议会，而非单个利益相关者，“无论这项事业多么值得支持”。
纽瑟姆的联邦亿万富翁税提案
纽瑟姆提议终止他所谓的“免税生活方式贷款”——这是许多亿万富翁采用的做法：通过股票持仓抵押贷款，不申报应纳税收入，随后将增值资产免税转移给继承人。
他呼吁在未来20年的代际财富转移浪潮到来之前修订遗产税规则，并援引124万亿美元的相关数据，警告这可能会固化“一个由继承财富构成的永久性美国贵族阶层”。
纽瑟姆还希望恢复2017年特朗普税改前的企业税率，并关闭跨国公司可通过账面转移利润的海外避税漏洞。
他将“涓滴经济学”称为一场持续50年的“失败”实验，称其将创纪录的利润用于股票回购和高管薪酬，而工人工资却停滞不前。
纽瑟姆提议设立一项全国性公共股权基金，在人工智能经济中持有重大股权。该基金的收入将用于帮助因人工智能而失业的工人完成转型。他的计划将资助遣散费、可携带福利和增强型失业保险。这项更广泛的计划还将为普及型儿童保育、免学费高等教育和职业培训、医疗保健，以及他所称的“人工智能世纪”的产业政策提供资金支持。
将于2027年1月卸任的纽瑟姆因任期限制无法连任，外界普遍认为他是2028年民主党总统提名的早期热门人选，而他的这些提案也让他明确站在了本党关于人工智能和经济不安全问题的辩论立场上——这两大问题正是今年中期选举周期的核心议题。本月公布的一项舆观/《经济学人》民调显示，71%的美国人——包括77%的民主党人和68%的共和党人——认为人工智能的发展速度过快。
科技行业领袖对加州拟议亿万富翁税的反对声音
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tech-leaders-push-back-on-proposed-billionaire-tax-in-california/
科技行业领袖反对加州拟议亿万富翁税
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes federal billionaire tax and AI “public equity” fund
June 26, 2026 11:44 AM EDT / CBS News
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a national minimum tax on billionaires and a federal fund that would give every American a stake in the wealth created by artificial intelligence, laying out a populist economic agenda in an essay published Friday on Substack.
At the same time, Newsom, who is mulling a 2028 White House bid, announced he will vote against a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot in California this November.
His pitch for the federal tax on the nation’s wealthiest is what he calls a “true minimum tax on billionaires — a modern Buffett rule — that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.”
“Today, the office worker can shoulder a higher tax rate than the heiress,” Newsom said. “The construction worker could pay a higher rate than the developer. And the delivery driver can end up paying a higher rate than the founder of the company whose packages he delivers.”
He blamed a system that grew out of “decades of loopholes written by lobbyists and upheld by politicians who knew exactly who they worked for.”
“But this system can be undone,” Newsom wrote.
One day earlier, the union-backed state billionaire tax measure qualified for the California ballot. Newsom says he opposes it in part because the fight over taxing the ultrawealthy should not be one undertaken by a state, but rather, by the federal government. Because billionaires can simply relocate to avoid any single state’s taxes, he argues that the battle belongs at the federal level “where this broken system was created in the first place.”
A number of California-based billionaires may already be taking steps to relocate to havens like Florida in order to avoid the possible tax — Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are among the tech titans who have been buying homes in the Sunshine State, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Newsom also objects to the California billionaire tax because the revenues would mainly be used to fund state spending on Medicaid, and not on other needs.
“It ignores our public schools,” Newsom wrote, and said the California proposal would also overlook women’s health clinics, housing and child care.
He maintains that it’s the Legislature that should be making decisions about California’s budget, not a single stakeholder, “no matter how worthy the cause.”
Newsom’s federal billionaire tax proposal
Newsom suggests ending what he calls the “tax-free lifestyle loan” — the practice adopted by many billionaires of borrowing against stock holdings, reporting no taxable income, then passing the appreciated assets to heirs untaxed.
He calls for rewriting inheritance rules ahead of a generational wealth transfer over the next two decades, citing a figure of $124 trillion, which he warns could lock in “a permanent American aristocracy of inherited wealth.”
Newsom would also like to see a return to corporate tax rates that were in place before the 2017 Trump tax cuts and the closing of offshore loopholes that let multinationals shift profits on paper, he said.
He called “trickle-down economics” a 50-year-long “failed” experiment that funneled record profits into buybacks and executive pay while workers’ wages stagnated.
Newsom proposes a national public equity fund that would take a major stake in the AI economy. Revenues would help fund transitions for workers displaced by AI. His plan would help fund severance, portable benefits and enhanced unemployment insurance. The broader program would underwrite universal child care, tuition-free higher education and career training, health care and an industrial policy for what he calls the “AI century.”
Newsom, who is term-limited and set to leave office in January 2027, is widely viewed as an early frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, and his proposals place him squarely in his party’s debate over AI and economic insecurity — two of the biggest issues in this year’s midterm election cycle. A YouGov/Economist survey this month found 71% of Americans — including 77% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans — said AI is developing too fast.
Big tech on proposed California billionaire tax
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tech-leaders-push-back-on-proposed-billionaire-tax-in-california/
Tech leaders push back on proposed billionaire tax in California
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