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Billionaires make strategic moves out of California ahead of proposed wealth tax
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Posted on 01/07/2026 5:08:06 PM PST by NoLibZone

As the clock ticks on California’s billionaires facing a proposed wealth tax, some of America’s top business leaders are making strategic moves to leave the Golden State.

Google co-founder Larry Page appears to be distancing himself from California, as public filings reviewed by Fox News Digital from the California Secretary of State’s office show several business entities linked to Page were moved out of the state in December, ahead of the Jan. 1, 2026, residency date tied to the proposed tax. Those filings indicate his family office, Koop LLC, and his influenza research fund, Flu Lab LLC, no longer list California, while a flying-car venture, One Aero, now lists its primary address in Florida.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison has taken steps that signal a potential pullback from California, though details of a reported $45 million off-market sale of his San Francisco home have not been independently confirmed by major outlets. The New York Post reported the sale and said it would mark the city’s largest real estate transaction of 2025.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; californiataxes; eyeroll; foxliesagain; gettingitgoodandhard

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Can't Tax Rich.Dems know this.

Tax Code.

Until Dems support flat & or sales tax,it remains a way to simultaneously promise raising taxes while buying votes with programs & tax code breaks.

Every program initiated to win election is another burden on the Middle Class.

1 posted on 01/07/2026 5:08:06 PM PST by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Oracle is a technology company. Google is an advertising company.


2 posted on 01/07/2026 5:12:40 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: NoLibZone

Is there a way to just blame Trump?


3 posted on 01/07/2026 5:17:28 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months. Is that a big deal?)
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4 posted on 01/07/2026 5:21:58 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: NoLibZone

Billionaires need to move the hack outta Cali,


5 posted on 01/07/2026 5:25:14 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: NoLibZone

No billionaires they’ll move to millionaires and no millionaires they’ll move down the line ,LOL


6 posted on 01/07/2026 5:29:20 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: NoLibZone

Didn’t they install him in the first place?


7 posted on 01/07/2026 5:44:52 PM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: NoLibZone
What took 'em so long?

MESSAGE TO FLEEING BILLIONAIRES:

Do not vote Democrat! Do not vote for the same stupidity that drove you out of California! Do not destroy the places to which you move!

8 posted on 01/07/2026 5:58:03 PM PST by Savage Beast (.When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: NoLibZone

I’d be willing to lease a space in my basement and address in a midwestern state to any billionaire needing a “presence” in a non Commiefornia state.


9 posted on 01/07/2026 6:15:19 PM PST by Skybird
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To: NoLibZone

Cali, making millionaires out of billionaires.


10 posted on 01/07/2026 6:24:38 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: NoLibZone

IIRC-—THE TAX IS RETROACTIVE TO ASSETS OWNED IN CALIF ON 1-1-2026..

TODAY IS 1-7-2026...
ALREADY TOO LATE...


11 posted on 01/07/2026 6:47:27 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

No billionaires? Simple-Just tax the millionaires. Problem solved.


12 posted on 01/07/2026 6:56:19 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Who is John Galt?

Great one!!!!


13 posted on 01/07/2026 7:05:13 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats stand with criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: NoLibZone

NOTE to California, New York, Washington State, Oregon Billionaires please flee to Colorado. If you are conservative, Texas, Florida and most of the South is open for business.


14 posted on 01/07/2026 9:06:41 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Who is John Galt?

That is spot on.

We have a lot of NYers who have moved here to NC because they can’t stand the environment they crated in NY.


15 posted on 01/08/2026 3:22:11 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Mark

So Google who helped China institute their surveillance program in 2013 is running away from the effects of this Democrat party inspired communist takeover?


16 posted on 01/08/2026 4:35:20 AM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: NoLibZone

Such taxes will fall on the middle class, and this is by design despite the rhetoric.


17 posted on 01/08/2026 5:30:06 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: NoLibZone

As the clock ticks on California’s billionaires facing a proposed wealth tax.

Becsuse the state can’t make ends meet on top marginal rate of 13.3%.


18 posted on 01/08/2026 6:35:06 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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