S8 Ep612: 2. The Politics of Taxes and Newsom’s Future Guest: Jeff Bliss Summary: This segment explores California's potential billionaire tax and the resulting exodus of capital. Discussions include the wide-open gubernatorial race and Governor Gavin Newsom’s nati
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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2. The Politics of Taxes and Newsom’s Future Guest: Jeff Bliss Summary: This segment explores California's potential billionaire tax and the resulting exodus of capital. Discussions include the wide-open gubernatorial race and Governor Gavin Newsom’s national polling despite significant state budget deficits and local criticism. (2)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor. Jeff places this specific watch. |
| 0:18.8 | We turn to the politics of California that dominate the |
| 0:21.7 | news not only in California but nationally because Governor Gavin Newsom is polling extremely well |
| 0:29.1 | in the early polls about the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 2028. We've spoken of Mr. |
| 0:35.9 | Newsom's global national tour before. However, at the same time, |
| 0:41.4 | he's leaving office and that opens up the governor's seat. And I've been watching various names. |
| 0:47.8 | There are many names. I don't know them all. So I go to one in particular that came up in |
| 0:52.8 | association with California's tax base, |
| 0:56.6 | and that is Ms. Kulati. |
| 0:58.9 | And she made a very clear statement on a video, which I saw online, |
| 1:05.1 | that California is in tax trouble if the billionaires leave, |
| 1:10.4 | which they're leaving all the time. |
| 1:11.8 | The Uber billionaire is now the most recent to leave California. |
| 1:16.7 | In fact, Ms. Kulotti said, if you take 200, she called them guys, 200 guys, pay 47% of the |
| 1:24.7 | revenue of California. |
| 1:26.4 | Jeff, that's not a stable system if that's accurate. |
| 1:29.2 | Is it accurate? |
| 1:30.2 | And is the governor's race about that statistic? |
| 1:34.5 | The governor's race is not been about that statistic. |
| 1:37.8 | That's actually part of a referendum that's going to come up. |
| 1:41.0 | It seems to be gaining traction. |
| 1:42.6 | Of course, you know, as things get whipped up by Bernie Sanders |
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