加密货币公司 Ripple 联合创始人、科技亿万富翁克里斯·拉森周二在《华尔街日报》科技大会上表示，加州拟对亿万富翁征收的财富税“愚蠢”，不会为该州带来一美元税收。
A proposed wealth tax on California’s billionaires is “dumb” and wouldn’t generate a dollar for the state, tech billionaire Chris Larsen said at the WSJ Tech conference Tuesday.
“我们需要在萨克拉门托拥有更大的影响力，反击像亿万富翁税这样的愚蠢举措，”拉森说。他补充称，加州的税收已经很高：“如果你想惩罚亿万富翁，就让他们留在加州吧。”这项被称为“40号提案”的拟议财富税在亿万富翁中引起轩然大波，多位亿万富翁正在权衡是否搬离该州。谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖·布林在太浩湖内华达州一侧购买了一处房产，Meta Platforms 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格曾威胁要搬离加州，直到董事会给他达成了一项协议。
“We need to have a bigger presence in Sacramento and push back on the dumb things like the billionaire’s tax,” Larsen, co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm Ripple, said. Larsen added that California’s taxes are already high: “If you want to punish the billionaires, make them stay in California.”The proposed wealth tax, called Prop. 40, has caused an uproar among billionaires, with several strategizing about whether to move out of state. Google co-founder Sergey Brin bought a house on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatened to move out of California until his board cut him a deal.