{"id":23630,"date":"2026-06-23T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/will-californias-billionaire-tax-proposal-make-it-to-ballots\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:37:21","slug":"will-californias-billionaire-tax-proposal-make-it-to-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/will-californias-billionaire-tax-proposal-make-it-to-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Will California\u2019s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there\u2019s uncertainty it\u2019ll make it to voters<\/p>\n<p>Hi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr here, filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery who is out on vacation. We\u2019ll be talking about the fight over a proposed billionaire tax in California, the UK\u2019s social media ban and SpaceX making a big buy in the AI arms race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/18\/california-billionaire-tax-ballot-tech-opposition\">California \u2018billionaire tax\u2019 makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/01\/tech-billionaires-california-elections\">Tech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races. Experts say it\u2019s the tip of the iceberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jun\/17\/it-makes-no-sense-16--and-17-year-olds-on-social-media-ban\">\u2018It makes no sense\u2019: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jun\/15\/uk-ministers-lobby-trump-backlash-social-media-ban\">UK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/22\/california-billionaire-tax-techscape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/38e509e5c6cebd21b697c28446bba95920578c09\/356_0_3560_2848\/master\/3560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=113fce1d8a420b555a648ade73abb9c7\" title=\"Will California\u2019s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?\" \/>Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there\u2019s uncertainty it\u2019ll make it to voters<br \/>\nHi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr here, filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery who is out on vacation. We\u2019ll be talking about the fight over a proposed billionaire tax in California, the UK\u2019s social media ban and SpaceX making a big buy in the AI arms race.<br \/>\nCalifornia \u2018billionaire tax\u2019 makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls<br \/>\nTech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races. Experts say it\u2019s the tip of the iceberg<br \/>\n\u2018It makes no sense\u2019: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban<br \/>\nUK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite more than double the needed number of signatures to qualify for ballot, there\u2019s uncertainty it\u2019ll make it to voters Hi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr here, filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery who is out on vacation. We\u2019ll be talking about the fight over a proposed billionaire tax &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/will-californias-billionaire-tax-proposal-make-it-to-ballots\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will California\u2019s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23631,"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\/23630"}],"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=23630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}