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The Washington Post<\/em><\/span> sure seems bent out of shapeover wealth taxes. And I suppose that makes sense, given that the once-storied publication is owned by one of the five richest dudes on the planet, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos, who put the kibosh on the paper\u2019s 2024 endorsement of Kamala Harris, proceeded to kiss the ring of Donald Trump, and has remade the Post<\/em>\u2019s once-respected opinion section in his own image, declaring in February 2025 that its coverage would henceforth focus on \u201cpersonal liberties and free markets.\u201d Opinions Editor David Shipley promptly quit, to be replaced by Adam O\u2019Neal, who jumped ship on Friday, citing personal reasons. <\/p>

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In any case, the Post<\/em> has been pulling out all the stops when it comes to the wealth tax. They\u2019ve run no less than 10 opinion pieces since March arguing against state and federal taxes on wealth and unrealized income\u2014the \u201cpaper\u201d gains that constitute the vast majority of the income of the richest Americans. The fact that the IRS can\u2019t touch that income is how Bezos, according to ProPublica, managed to pay a true income tax rate of less than 1 percent from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Post<\/em>\u2019s recent lineup: \u2022 March 2: \u201cBernie Sanders\u2019s 2028 litmus test would strangle America\u2019s golden goose\u201d (Editorial board)\u2022 March 8: \u201cThe myth of the billionaire wealth tax\u201d (Megan McCardle)\u2022 April 17: \u201cThis tax would rain a wealth of unintended consequences\u201d (George Will)\u2022 June 5: \u201cThe \u2018buy, borrow, die\u2019 myth\u201d (Editorial board)\u2022 June 27: \u201cGavin Newsom\u2019s wealth tax two-step\u201d (Editorial board)\u2022 July 3: \u201cLower inequality does not guarantee better democracy\u201d (Editorial board)\u2022 July 16: \u201cSocialists think wealth is stolen. They\u2019re wrong.\u201d (Marian L. Tupy, Cato Institute)\u2022 July 21: \u201c\u2018It should be laughed out of the room\u2019: Four writers on midterm ballot measures\u201d (Megan McCardle, again)\u2022 July 19: \u201cMedicare-for-all means taxes-for-all\u201d (Editorial board)\u2022 July 23: \u201cI\u2019m from Nebraska. Here\u2019s what wealth-tax advocates don\u2019t realize.\u201d (Ben Nelson, former US senator; senior adviser for Saving America\u2019s Family Enterprises)<\/p>\n

This last one is particularly problematic for a publication whose editorial slogan is \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness.\u201d Saving America\u2019s Family Enterprises (SAFE), the organizationpaying Nelson to promote its talking points, is a \u201cdark money\u201d group\u2014a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that isn\u2019t obligated to disclose who is funding it.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll talk more about SAFE, but first let\u2019s deconstruct this op-ed.<\/p>\n

Nelson, an 85-year-old former Nebraska senator, was the Joe Manchin of his time\u2014a Republican in Democrat clothing. Backed by the NRA and the notoriously anti-tax US Chamber of Commerce, he\u2019s a staunch opponent of abortion rights and same sex marriage. More to the point, he was the only Democrat who voted for both of George W. Bush\u2019s tax cut packages\u2014Arlen Specter switched to Democrat only after<\/em> doing so. In 2009, Nelson was the to sign Grover Nordquist\u2019s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a vow to oppose all tax increases.<\/p>\n

His big revelation in the Post<\/em> is that passing any<\/em> of the proposedfederal wealth taxes, or state-level proposals like California\u2019s Billionaire Tax Act ballot measure, would be devastating\u2026for farmers!<\/p>\n

Are we stuck in a time warp?<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a semi-serious question. As I noted in 2024, and countless others have pointed out before me, the claim that wealth taxes\u2014or the estate tax, in this case\u2014hurts \u201cfamily farmers\u201d is \u201ca well-worn Republican trope that amounts, fittingly enough, to a heap of cow manure.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the 1980s and 1990s, according to an exhaustive analysis published last year in Iowa Law Review<\/em>, anti-tax zealots \u201cdiscovered and capitalized upon an incredibly powerful image in the minds of voters: the threat to family farms. Tax opponents authored publications and held hearings detailing \u2018family farm horror stories\u2019 involving farms that would potentially have to be sold to pay the estate tax. It turned out not to matter that no policymaker, scholar, or journalist was ever able to uncover an actual example of a family farm that was sold to pay the estate tax.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a factual matter,\u201d notes the paper\u2019s author, Kathleen DeLaney Thomas, a University of North Carolina law school professor and tax expert, \u201cthe threat of taxing the family farm out of existence is a myth.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, the Post<\/em> knowingly published a pro-oligarchy opinion piece written on behalf of a dark money group and based on long-ago debunked propaganda, which makes one wonder whether the publishers view the paper\u2019s slogan as aspirational. <\/p>\n

Nelson (or whoeverghost-wrote his op-ed) concedes that most wealth tax proposals only target billionaires, but, he cautions, it\u2019s a slippery slope. He cites a Hoover Institution study that concluded California would ultimately lose<\/em> $25 billion in tax revenue if this one-time wealth tax passes, because billionaires would flee the state. But is that analysis any good? Not according to a group of prominent economists who support the wealth tax. In their rebuttal, they say the Hoover crew mischaracterized the proposal and made revenue estimates that rely \u201con a crucial and highly unlikely assumption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of billionaires, how many would actually leave the state? Nobody really knows. Peter Thiel, who purchased citizenship in New Zealand nearly a decade ago and is now reportedly trying to abscond to Argentina, never seemed inclined to remain in California. Allen Prohofsky, a former longtime chief economist for California\u2019s Franchise Tax Board, told me that anyone who claims with certainty that a given tax change will cause an exodus iseither lying or \u201cdelusional.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who really hate, hate, hate<\/em> taxes? Most of them have already left California,\u201d he says. But for people thinking about it \u201cthere\u2019s a host of variables: Where can I get employment? Where does my spouse want to live? What\u2019s the cost of housing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are your grandchildren in school? Where is your health provider?\u201d adds Harvey Dale, a tax law professor at New York University who advises billionaire clients in his private practice. Leaving one\u2019s state, or nation, is \u201ca very complicated and ultimately personal decision,\u201d Dale says, \u201cbut it doesn\u2019t blend down easily into something simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelson\u2019s conclusion: The IRS should simply collect the estimated $700 billion in taxes that go uncollected each year, and that way \u201cfarmers wouldn\u2019t be forced to sell their assets.\u201d<\/p>

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Yes! The IRS should<\/em> do that. But the agency couldn\u2019t manage it even before<\/em> Donald Trump rose to power. Historically, every time IRS special agents encounter rich Americans who are cheating the government and start digging in, the oligarchs call in favors and next thing you know the agency is defunded again and the investigations are shut down. Trump\u2019s IRS will never collect the money. His minions and (former) trillionaire Elon Musk gutted the agency to such an extentthat it can\u2019t even handle basic customer service,as my colleague Stephanie Mencimer recently revealed.<\/p>\n

Even the fact we\u2019re talking about Musk in this context should be the most compelling argument for taxing the unrealized gains his wealth was built on. The nation\u2019s growing cadre of billionaires, more now than ever, is exercising vast, undeserved power over public affairs. As Jeffrey Winters, a scholar of oligarchy at Northwestern University, noted in a Mother Jones<\/em> excerpt of his latest book, Musk was the biggest influencer of federal elections during the 2024 cycle, spending more than $291 million\u2014a fortune for most, but a pittance for him.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, Winters wrote:<\/p>\n

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Former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon\u2019s grandson Timothy, a man few Americans knew existed, spent about $197 million, and [Sheldon] Adelson\u2019s widow, Miriam, ranked third with more than $148 million. All told, 100 individuals invested $2.4 billion in the 2024 election\u2014almost half the total cost of the presidential contest and 16 percent of\u00a0all federal election spending. The problem is bipartisan\u2014oligarchs poured money in for Democrats and Republicans alike.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One hundred individuals. Half the presidential election spending.<\/em> That, my friends, is a democracy killer, which underscores how the Post<\/em>, with its relentless anti-tax rhetoric, is complicit.<\/p>\n

Given that SAFE<\/span> and its hired gun Ben Nelson want the taxman to collect all of those unpaid taxes, you might think that restoring ample funding for IRS enforcement would be among the group\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n

It is not. <\/p>\n

According to IRS filings, SAFE exists \u201cto advocate against federal tax proposals that complicate the tax code, encourage tax avoidance, or harm small businesses, family farmers, homeowners and the middle class.\u201d Indeed, these salt-of-the-earth farmers, concerned young homeowners, and earnest middle-class folks (or actors portraying them) star in some highly misleading videos posted on SAFE\u2019s website to warn against taxing unrealized gains.<\/p>\n

One video implies, for example, that someone who buys a $500,000 house could be taxed annually on the increase in the home\u2019s value. That\u2019s completely false.<\/em> If a couple buys a $500,000 house today and sells it for $1 million after two years\u2014a realized<\/em> gain, by the way\u2014they won\u2019t owe a dime, because the IRS exempts $250,000 in home-sale profits ($500k for a couple) from taxation.<\/p>\n

This aligns with a standard\u2014and false\u2014Republican scare tactic: The IRS is coming for your middle-class family!<\/em><\/p>\n

So whom does SAFE really represent? It doesn\u2019t disclose its donors, but some clues can be gleaned from its personnel. Its president from June 2023 through May 2026 was Jim Doyle. He\u2019s the owner of Portico Policy Advisors, \u201ca research and strategic communications firm that conducts policy analysis for leading corporations, financial service firms, venture capitalists and nonprofits.\u201d You may recognize some of his clients, like JPMorganChase, Citi, and TPG\u2014an asset management firm with $306 billion under management that offers, among other things, \u201cglobal wealth solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

And nothing says \u201cmiddle class\u201d like global wealth solutions.<\/p>\n

SAFE\u2019s treasurer is Matthew Mazzanti, a former intern for Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. Mazzanti, eight years out of college, is also Chief Administration Officer at PPHC, \u201ca family of premier advisory firms specializing in government relations, public affairs, and strategic communications\u201d that includes lobbying shops like Crossroads Strategies, which in 2020 merged with the lobby practice of former Republican House Majority Leader Trent Lott and former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.), both now Crossroads principals and board members. The PPHC conglomerate is led by, in its own words, \u201cestablished founders and seasoned corporate executives.\u201d It boasts: \u201cOur clients include nearly half of the Fortune 100.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m sure it\u2019s very<\/em> concerned with the travails of middle-class America.<\/p>\n

In September 2023, SAFE and Breaux co-filed a in the Supreme Court case Moore v. United States<\/em>. Like Nelson, Breaux supported the Bush Jr\u2019s 2001 tax cut package. He also sided with a Republican attempt to repeal the estate tax\u2014which the lawyers for America\u2019s upper crust have turned into a punchline. His position on Moore<\/em> was therefore no surprise; the brief asks the court to rule that taxing unrealized gains is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

It never came to that, because Charles Moore\u2019s gains were in fact realized<\/em>, the court found, even if the money in question wasn\u2019t distributed to him and his wife. But the opinions of conservative justices in the case shocked many legal observers by making clear that the Roberts court would not tolerate taxes on unrealized gains (Federal wealth taxes are already, for all practical purposes, unconstitutional, as I explained in my recent piece \u201cHow to Tax a Billionaire,\u201d though states are not beholden to the federal rules.)<\/p>\n

The constitutional issue is really the only decent argument against such a tax\u2014not farmers, logistics, venue-shopping moguls, or the concerns of first-time homeowners with infants. And certainly not to protect the interests anyone below the 90th wealth percentile. The richest 10 percent of Americans, after all, own 87.4 percent of all corporate stock and mutual funds. Most families have little to no unrealized gains\u2014and those would be exempted in any piece of legislation intended to rein in the out-of-control, republic-distorting, oligarchic wealth disparities between affluent households and those just scraping by.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Washington Post<\/em> can just spare us the propaganda next time, and tell the truth: The Roberts Supreme Court, Trump administration, and oligarchs of both parties (including Mr. Bezos), care more about wealth protection than American democracy\u2014would that it survives the presentdarkness. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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