{"id":22885,"date":"2026-04-27T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/california-billionaire-tax-proposal-garners-enough-signatures-to-head-to-ballot\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:37:22","slug":"california-billionaire-tax-proposal-garners-enough-signatures-to-head-to-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/california-billionaire-tax-proposal-garners-enough-signatures-to-head-to-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in the state is opposed by Silicon Valley tech titans and Gavin Newsom<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of a proposal to levy a one-time tax on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> billionaires say they\u2019ve gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign says it has collected more than 1.5m signatures, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/27\/california-billionaire-tax\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/61a0df70221d4d273b1da678fc7050d4a0307fe9\/689_0_5001_4002\/master\/5001.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=af8ec1b59a4dad663288bf1d4c204248\" title=\"California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot\" \/>Proposal for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in the state is opposed by Silicon Valley tech titans and Gavin Newsom<br \/>\nProponents of a proposal to levy a one-time tax on California billionaires say they\u2019ve gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot in November.<br \/>\nThe campaign says it has collected more than 1.5m signatures, according to a statement. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in the state is opposed by Silicon Valley tech titans and Gavin Newsom Proponents of a proposal to levy a one-time tax on California billionaires say they\u2019ve gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot in November. The campaign says it has collected more than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/california-billionaire-tax-proposal-garners-enough-signatures-to-head-to-ballot\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}