{"id":463435,"date":"2026-09-14T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463435\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:26:09","slug":"economists-make-the-case-for-and-against-californias-billionaire-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463435\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists Make the Case For and Against California\u2019s Billionaire Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talk to two leading economists about whether the billionaire tax would help\u00a0 California\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 7:56 am PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2261843469-1-scaled.jpg\"   width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, speaks during the campaign kickoff for the California Billionaire Tax Act at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, February 18, 2026. Sanders is seeking the support of California voters for a November&#8217;s ballot initiative of an emergency tax on billionaires to help the state&#8217;s healthcare system.\u00a0(Patrick T. Fallon \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We talk to two leading economists about whether the billionaire tax would help\u00a0 California\u2019s economy. Sep 14, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-463435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463435","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=463435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}