根据决策台总部（DDHQ）的预测，加州选民正在否决一项向亿万富翁居民征收财富税的提案，这标志着科技和商业高管的重大胜利，他们花费数亿美元反对该措施。
California voters are rejecting a proposal to impose a wealth tax on billionaire residents, marking a major win for tech and business executives, who spent hundreds of millions against the measure, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).
根据DDHQ的分析，截至美东时间晚上8:51，在已统计的76%选票中，54%投了反对票，46%投了赞成票。
According to DDHQ's analysis, 54 percent voted against the measure, while 46 percent voted for it, with 76 percent of the total counted as of 8:51 p.m. EST.
第40号提案本将首创在全国范围内对亿万富翁财富征收一次性5%的税。该财富税产生的政府收入将主要用于州医疗保健项目，其余用于食品援助和教育计划。选前民调显示，更多加州选民反对该提案，尽管预测结果胶着。
Proposition 40 would have instituted a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires' wealth in a nationwide first. The government revenue from the wealth tax would have largely gone to state healthcare programs, with the remainder going to food assistance and education initiatives. Preelection polling showed more California voters opposed the proposal, though the projections were tight.
该财富税提案分裂了加州民主党人。州民主党党部和AFL-CIO及团结工会支持该提案，而州长加文·纽森（民主党人）则公开反对。这位任期受限的州长表示，他支持联邦层面的亿万富翁税，但对该提案将税收收入“几乎全部”用于医疗保健提出异议。
The wealth tax proposal split California Democrats. The state Democratic Party and AFL-CIO and Teamsters unions supported the proposition, while Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) came out against it. The term-limited governor said he supports a federal billionaire tax but took issue with the proposal dedicating "almost all of the revenue" from the tax to healthcare.
纽森6月在Substack帖子中写道：“没有住房拨款，没有儿童保育拨款，没有给必须接听911电话的公共安全工人拨款，也没有给推动加州经济十年的公立大学拨款。这不是我们制定加州预算优先事项的方式。”
“There is nothing for housing, nothing for childcare, nothing for public safety workers who must answer 911 calls, and nothing for our public universities that have powered California’s economy for a decade,” Newsom wrote in a Substack post in June, adding, “This is not how we should set California’s budget priorities.”
包括许多硅谷高管在内的加州亿万富翁游说反对该措施，向非营利组织“建设更美好的加州”捐赠了超过3.33亿美元。
California billionaires, including many Silicon Valley executives, lobbied against the measure, giving more than $333 million to the nonprofit Building a Better California.
非党派的州立法分析师办公室的分析发现，加州对该州约200名亿万富翁征税本将征收数百亿美元。《国会山报》的Max Rego对此文有贡献。
An analysis from the nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst's Office found California would have collected tens of billions of dollars by imposing the tax on the roughly 200 billionaires in the state. The Hill's Max Rego contributed.