{"id":142283,"date":"2026-01-20T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142283\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:55:08","slug":"should-california-impose-a-tax-on-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142283\/","title":{"rendered":"Should California Impose a Tax on Billionaires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Failed to save article<\/p>\n<p>Please try again<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2232701059-2000x1333.jpg\"  alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Union members, community activists, and Pro-Palestinians rally and march through streets at Mission District during the &#8216;Workers Over Billionaires&#8217; Labor Day rally in San Francisco, California, United States on September 1, 2025.\u00a0(Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED; co-host, KQED&#8217;s Political Breakdown<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Mac, tech reporter based in Los Angeles, The New York Times; co-author, \u201cCharacter Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Jimenez, chief of staff, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West<br \/>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 20, 2026 Failed to save article Please try again Union members, community activists, and Pro-Palestinians rally and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}