2026-06-26T13:00:25.522Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/politics/gavin-newsom-billionaire-tax-california
加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆周五提出了一项针对亿万富翁的全国性税收计划，他称这是“美国经济重置”议程的第一步，其助手明确表示，这是他考虑参选总统的举措之一。
“美国建国者构建的制度本是为了防止权力集中在少数人手中，但几十年来，我们任由这种集中悄然发生，且愈演愈烈，”纽瑟姆写道。“作为一个国家，我们可以共同扭转这一局面。”
这项政策提案距离总统竞选周期开启还为时过早——但此时提出恰逢民主党持续拥抱经济民粹主义，并推出针对富豪的举措。同时，加州选民将于11月就一项亿万富翁税提案进行投票，而州长和该税提案的反对者周四晚未能达成协议将其从 ballot 中移除。
纽瑟姆在加州已届任期限制，将于2027年1月卸任。他在周五上午发布的Substack帖子中阐述了自己的提案，呼吁对净资产超过1亿美元的人群征收最低税，确保他们缴纳的税率至少不低于普通美国劳动者——后者无法利用避税漏洞和其他手段获益。
民主党此前曾提出过多种财富税方案，包括马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦在2020年民主党总统竞选期间提出的计划。纽瑟姆表示，他的提案旨在抵御人工智能重塑经济带来的冲击，同时提议设立他所称的“全国公共股权基金”，让所有美国人而非仅科技公司和投资者，都能分享未来可能创造的财富。一名助手透露，该基金将用于支付员工过渡福利、全民托儿服务、免费高等教育和职业培训、医疗保健，以及针对人工智能的全国性产业战略。
纽瑟姆还呼吁修订遗产税规则，他称未来20年将出现人类历史上规模最大的跨代财富转移，“如果我们不采取行动，这种在超级富豪之间进行的财富转移将固化一个由继承财富构成的永久性美国贵族阶层，带来建国者曾警告过的所有政治后果。”
纽瑟姆解释了自己为何会亲自投票反对加州的这项提案：该提案将对净资产超过10亿美元的居民征收一次性5%的税。
该提案的支持者已收集到超过87万个签名，其中包括佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯和加州众议员罗·卡纳——后者本人也是2028年总统竞选的潜在候选人。纽瑟姆和其他人担心，这项税提案将迫使企业迁出加州，且所征税款的分配范围不够广泛。
“我们在与50个州竞争，”纽瑟姆今年早些时候在世界经济论坛上表示，“资本会流动，这是真实存在的。不是假想的，而是千真万确的。”
在他的Substack帖子中，纽瑟姆写道，尽管他理解“推动加州这项税提案提案的焦虑情绪”，但该提案“对计划生育联盟数十年来奋力保护的安全网诊所和生殖健康服务机构视而不见。它没有为住房、托儿服务、接听911电话的公共安全工作人员提供资金，也没有为推动加州经济发展十年的公立大学提供支持。”
长期以来被视为2028年总统竞选的热门候选人，纽瑟姆上周通过一段视频更明确地亮出了自己的政治姿态，他称美国司法部正在调查其妻子詹妮弗·西贝尔·纽瑟姆：“唐纳德·特朗普之所以盯上我，不只是因为我发了尖锐的推文，而是因为我正在考虑参选总统。”
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）本月早些时候证实，詹妮弗·西贝尔·纽瑟姆正在接受调查。但一名熟悉调查情况的人士否认，该调查是由司法部在华盛顿的特朗普任命的领导层发起的。
Gavin Newsom opposes a California wealth tax. He’s proposing a national billionaire tax instead
2026-06-26T13:00:25.522Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/politics/gavin-newsom-billionaire-tax-california
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a national tax on billionaires that he says is the first part of an “economic reset for America” agenda, which aides explicitly say is part of his considering to launch a presidential campaign.
“The system America’s founders built was designed to prevent the concentration of power in a few hands, but we have allowed that concentration to happen anyway, slowly, in plain sight, over decades,” Newsom writes. “We can reverse it together, as a country.”
It is extremely early in the presidential campaign cycle for a policy proposal — but comes as Democrats continue to embrace economic populism and moves against the wealthy. It also comes as California voters in November will decide on a billionaires’ tax after the governor and opponents of the tax late Thursday failed to reach a deal to keep it off the ballot.
Newsom, who is term-limited in California and will leave office in January 2027, lays out his proposal in a Substack post that went live on Friday morning, calling for a minimum tax on anyone worth more than $100 million so that they pay at least the same rate, rather than less, than the average American worker who doesn’t have loopholes and other maneuvers to benefit from.
Various wealth tax ideas have been proposed by Democrats before, including by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as part of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Newsom says his idea comes out of wanting to create a bulwark against how artificial intelligence will reshape the economy, also proposing what he calls a “national public equity fund” to give every American, rather than just tech companies and investors, a share in the wealth likely to be produced. That fund, an aide said, would cover worker transition benefits, universal childcare, free higher education and career training, healthcare and a national industrial strategy for AI.
Newsom also called for rewriting the rules around inheritance, arguing that with what he says will be the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in human history coming over the next 20 years, “if we do not act, that transfer of wealth among the ultra-wealthy will lock in a permanent American aristocracy of inherited wealth, with all the political consequences the founders warned us about.”
Newsom explains why that he will personally vote no on the California proposal, which would levy a one-time 5% tax on residents with a net worth over $1 billion.
Backers of the measure gathered more than 870,000 signatures and include progressives like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and California Rep. Ro Khanna – himself a 2028 contender. Newsom and others fear it would drive businesses out of California, and that the revenue collected would not be spread around widely enough.
“We’re competing with 50 states,” Newsom told the World Economic Forum earlier this year. “Capital flows and move(s). That’s real. It’s not imagined. It’s very, very real.”
In his Substack post, Newsom writes that while he understands “the anxiety” driving interest in the California proposed tax, it “turns a blind eye to safety-net clinics and reproductive healthcare providers that Planned Parenthood has fought for decades to protect. There is nothing for housing, nothing for childcare, nothing for public safety workers who must answer 911 calls, and nothing for our public universities that have powered California’s economy for a decade.”
Long a presumed candidate for president in 2028, Newsom has begun to show his political hand more explicitly with a video last week about what he said was a Justice Department investigation into his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom: “Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets, he’s coming after me because I am considering running for president.”
CNN confirmed earlier this month that Jennifer Siebel Newsom is under investigation. However, a person familiar with the probe denied that it was launched by the department’s Trump-appointed leadership in DC.
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