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OMB’s guidance would provide little recourse to people subject to political retribution.

We write in opposition to the Office of Management and Budget’s disastrous and likely unlawful proposed rule that would devastate American health care innovation for generations.

“Third parties hold data on individual patients and pricing for drugs and procedures,” said Congressman Mark Takano.

I’ll give the survivors credit, but I did coin the phrase ‘Epstein class’ because they’re a group of rich and powerful people who are not playing by the rules, and it offends the sense that we have one tier of justice.

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.

So here is what I support: A national billionaires’ tax.

But I’m voting no because this measure dedicates almost all of the revenue it raises to a single category of state spending.

Money buys influence, and influence rewrites the rules. Those rewritten rules funnel even more wealth to the few. Under this weight, democracy itself starts to buckle.

We need to ensure every American owns a stake in the future being built by AI through a national public equity fund that takes a major stake in the new economy.

I understand the anxiety driving the wealth tax proposal in California. But I’m voting no because this measure dedicates almost all of the revenue it raises to a single category of state spending.

It's sitting over in the Senate.

The evidence is in. The impacts are very real — not just substantive economic impacts in terms of the revenue, but start-ups, the indirect impacts of … people questioning long-term commitments, medium-term commitments.

This is my fear. It’s just what I warned against. It’s happening.

The fight to make the wealthiest Americans pay more in taxes is not one we should be fighting state by state.

The system is fundamentally broken. The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans. It’s time for an economic reset.

Wealth is movable, and it shops for the state with the lowest taxes.

You may not be able to pick up and move to Texas or Florida to shelter your income from taxation, but I promise you that billionaires can, and do.

Last night, it became certain that a wealth tax would be placed on the November ballot in California. I’m voting no.