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Washington Dems passed an income tax they know is unconstitutional. That was the point
Uber co-founder Kalanick joined Musk, Zuckerberg and others leaving blue states as Washington state pushes a millionaire tax
By Jason Rantz Fox News
Published March 27, 2026 5:00am EDT
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Travis Kalanick chose to ditch California on Dec. 18 for a reason. The Uber co-founder relocated from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, exactly 14 days before California's would-be billionaire wealth tax residency deadline, dodging a potential $180 million hit on his $3.6 billion fortune. He made no secret of the calculation.
"Just to be clear, on Dec. 18, I moved to Texas. I don’t know what’s so specific about December 18, but let’s just say it’s prior to January," Kalanick said in an interview with TPBN.
He joined Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Larry Page, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and PayPal and Founders Fund founder Peter Thiel in a steady procession of wealth abandoning blue states for Florida and Texas. Democrats have been engineering this for years. California, New York and now Washington state are running the same tax-hiking playbook at nearly the same moment, and the results are entirely predictable.
In New York City, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made taxing the wealthy a centerpiece of his administration. He is pushing an additional 2 percent income tax surcharge on city residents earning over $1 million annually, along with corporate tax hikes he claims would generate billions toward closing a $5.4 billion budget deficit. His ultimatum to Albany is that approving those........