If they weren’t paying taxes in the first place, their departure only improves the environment.
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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'Flee'?! Like cockroaches when the light is turned on?
Bye. Go to Texas or Florida. Next....
Bye bitch
No they won't.
Greedy fucks should be totally stripped of their wealth wherever they go so as to (re)learn what its like down here with us
Let them flee all the way to Russia. Billionaires shouldn't exist in the first place.
People of California: Don't threaten us with a good time. (Also, not like their tax dollars will be missed)
If you can't contribute anything but only take take take, then get the fuck out of the whole country while you're at it. And stay out!
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This happened in NJ and the billionaire who “left because of taxes” has both returned to the state since and pretty consistently stated he did not leave because of the tax hike and never said that was his motive. While I am sure these scumbags will do whatever is necessary to avoid paying taxes my point is don’t expect the media to not propagandize here.
The narrative being built is clearly one to make the average person think “increasing taxes on the wealthy will hurt us!” This is what happened in New Jersey. “If the tax increases are passed and David Tepper leaves it will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars and ruin everything!”. It’s that domestic abuse shit; “you should just let me exploit the fuck out of you and if you don’t I’ll bail and it’s your fault for not letting me continue to do so”. Also fwiw while Tepper left NJ was fine and while his loss was notable to the tax budget it was not insurmountable by any means. NJ and California are already quite wealthy states.
If the billionaire class really had taxes as their top priority, or even near the top; they would have moved to Nigeria or something a long time ago. Instead, they stay in “commie-fornia” with high taxes … wonder why??? [because of so many reasons, from infrastructure to knowledge base…]
Are these the same billionaires who were going to leave New York? Or different ones?
Because they currently contribute so much.
Actually Larry page may or may not be absolutely fine, I've never heard of him before.
The Google founders are all very different people now. Getting mega rich fucks you up.
Google co-founder, way up there in the billionaire list. Probably leaning towards the "not" be absolutely fine.
they sound leave and to to Mars, where there's no tax
Then don't allow them to leave the state
Or just take their companies within the state.
Fuck the rich
Bye, assholes.
so it's a win win?
I'm threatening to move if my landlord persists on collecting rent, that should get him to back off
Bye Felicia
Good riddance ✌️ not that the cucks would ever actually leave
Yet another benefit of the wealth tax.
billionaires kill so many people, and destroy so much, and they get away with it. now they cry and run away when they get taxed a little bit
Well now I want to pass that wealth tax even harder. GTFO, Satan. I rebuke you!
No...
Please...
Come back...
🙄
I propose that the wealth tax is murder, as is my right to propose absolutely ridiculous shit in the US Court of Law.
Thiel should be in prison and then deported back to Germany for violating Americans 4th amendment rights
no thank you, we don't want them here either.
I guess we will have to send him to the hauge for palantir’s participation in the genocide of the Palestinian people then
A.) No they're not
B.) If they do, then good for everyone in California. Let them dodge taxes elsewhere.
Right? These fucking billionaires act like they're existence is some kind of grace to everybody around them. As if they just exude money instead of continually extracting it from the economy making the lives of everyone around them worse.
It wasn’t as if these billionaire parasites were paying taxes anyways.
If they were going to leave it wouldn't be posted like this, as a threat in the news.
No, they aren't.
Let me guess he is moving to florida or texas
I'm sure the Californians are shaking in their boots at this.
Good, making California a more affordable place for California families. I hope one their platinum-plated private jets collides with the others gold-plated mega yacht on their way out and I never have to read this shit from their publicists again.
Lol they already have like 500 homes in like 50 countries. Its either this or a series of Luigi Mangioni-like shootings and imo, I'd rather have these billionaires just pay their fucking taxes.
Your taxes don't mean shit to the state if all you do is look for reasons not to pay them, and don't pay them.
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