Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom become adversaries over push to tax California billionaires

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56% : He said enactment of the proposed tax would show "we are still living in a democratic society where the people have some power." "Enough is enough," Sanders said to a pulse of applause.
49% : LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall's midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party's leading figures into adversaries just when Democrats can least afford division from within.
47% : Health care union is pushing proposed tax to fund services A large health care union is attempting to place a proposal before voters in November that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires -- including stocks, art, businesses, collectibles and intellectual property -- to backfill federal funding cuts to health services for lower-income people that were signed by President Donald Trump last year.
47% : " Sanders urges support for billionaires tax Citing protests against federal immigration raids in Minnesota, he urged the crowd to support the tax, saying Californians can show that "when we stand together, we can take on the oligarchs and the billionaires.
46% : " The senator, a democratic socialist, is popular in California -- he won the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in the state in a runaway.
44% : Analysts say an exodus of billionaires could mean a loss of hundreds of millions of tax dollars for the nation's most populous state.
43% : Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders traveled to Los Angeles on Wednesday to campaign for the tax proposal, which has Silicon Valley in an uproar, with tech titans threatening to leave the state.
43% : San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, a Democratic candidate for governor, has said inequality starts at the federal level, where the tax code is riddled with loopholes.
35% : Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, both candidates for governor, have warned the tax would erase jobs.
30% : If fact, they would be made worse," said Brian Brokaw, a longtime Newsom adviser who is leading a political committee opposing the tax.
29% : Newsom has long opposed state-level wealth taxes, believing such levies would be disadvantageous for the world's fourth-largest economy.
27% : The proposal has created a rift between Newsom and prominent members of his party's progressive wing, including Sanders, who has said the tax should be a template for other states.

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