Left-wing podcaster Kara Swisher said Thursday that billionaires who departed from California to avoid a proposed wealth tax were “ungrateful” and instead should figure out how to come up with the funds to pay it.
Several Democratic gubernatorial candidates, as well as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, declared their opposition to a ballot measure backed by the state’s chapter of the Service Employees International Union that would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires.
Swisher told Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California during the episode of her podcast, “On with Kara Swisher,” how she responded to an opponent of the measure.
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“It specifically targets about a hundred people, I think it is, who are threatening to leave California, except for (NVIDIA CEO) Jensen
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