California’s Billionaires Rage at Huge Tax Bill to Fund Illegal Migrants’ Health Subsidies

Neil Munro 14 Jan 20261/4(Long article but worth it)

California’s stock market billionaires are angrily denouncing a proposed tax to fund healthcare for the millions of illegal migrants they welcomed into their state. The tech sector “is getting what they had coming ….[after] pushing for open borders and unbridled employment visas,” said Kevom Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which opposes the H-1B program. He continued:

A strong, middling class that can form families, pay for college educations without going into debt, and pay for health care, doesn’t need this kind of a [tax] grift … but now it’s on the tech bros to pay for the health care for all these illegal immigrants — and all the healthcare workers who have to service them.

“You funded Democrats and the people who censored, locked down, and tormented us. That was your political gamble,” said a message from conservative activistMike Cernovich. In a later tweet, he added: 90% of Tech and VC [executives] are cultural Marxists with a hatred of Americans. That’s why they want infinite [subordinate] H-1B’s. They hate [citizens].But, he added, “There’s a split happening … We can take back the country with 10% of them.”

Billionaire Rethink

The political drama is forcing many billionaires to recognize that their pro-migration policies are importing resentment and poverty, so shifting national politics against their pocketbooks.

The proposed tax is likely to appear on California’s ballot in November. Once passed, the measure would require roughly 200 billionaires to pay a share of the controlling value they own in companies, including companies they founded.

Proponents say the ballot would raise $100 billion, mostly for healthcare programs. On January 10, the Wall Street Journal quoted an official at the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, saying, “We’re simply trying to keep emergency rooms open and save patient lives…the few [billionaires] who left have shown the world just how outrageously greedy they truly are.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a supposed moderate Democrat, has supported the proposed tax. He needs the support of Democratic-aligned unions for his expected presidential campaign.

Many billionaires are blasting the tax as a crude wealth-grab — and some are leaving the state . (What about the non wealth tax, we have all been subject too, you idiots finally woke up.)“I love California … but stupid wealth tax proposals like this make it irresponsible for me not to plan leaving the state,” said DoorDash founder Andy Fang, who gained billions by creating an industry of poorly-paid migrant delivery workers.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/14/californias-billionaires-rage-at-huge-tax-bill-for-migrants/

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The original founders of Google Inc., for example, have reportedly moved themselves to low-tax Florida.“That math doesn’t math,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, a Silicon Valley investor with ethnic roots in Sri Lanka, which is a small island off of southern India. “Everyone that is potentially touched by this will now leave, and all that will result is a massive hole in California’s finances that you will be forced to fill.”

The Billionaires’ Bill for Migration(Finally the Fuckers that cheered on the destruction of the US for more money, have come to shout, it’s almost too late assholes). Some of the outraged billionaires recognize that mass migration created the political base for the wealth grab.

•“After blindly funding the Left for years, Silicon Valley is finally realizing what time it is. Dinner time,” said David Sacks, a California investor and author who is now advising Trump’s administration and moving his legal address to Texas. Silicon Valley is “on the menu,” he added.

•“The blast radius, however, of healthcare for illegal aliens, will be the end of Silicon Valley” in California, said Palihapitiya.

•“I care about two issues: I care about immigration and re-establishing the deterrent capacity of America,”Palantir CEO Alex Karp told the New York Times in December. “We are on the side of working-class Americans.”

• “This has always been inevitableand is not due to Newsom or any individual,” said Elon Musk, who is increasingly critical of mass migration. “The Democratic Party is utterly controlled by the unions and the trial lawyers and California is a one-party state.”

Those concerns were echoed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on January 12:

Open immigration would be something interesting if we gave people nothing [in welfare]. Because if we gave them nothing, if they weren’t smart enough, capable, entrepreneurial enough, driven enough, they would starve to death, and so they wouldn’t stay here, they would self deport. But if you give them welfare, and you’re going to give them food stamps, and you’re gonna give them housing and you give them this, everybody’s gonna come and just leech off of us, and we’re going to pay and pay and pay.

Separately, a growing number ofAmerican CEOs — including some left-wingers — are increasingly alarmed at Muslim migration into the United States. They include Larry Fink, founder of the giant BlackRock investment firm, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and Meta, and investor David Sacks. Similarly, many writers and advocateshave stepped back from full-throated advocacy for migration amid the growing clout of Islamic activists, who now include the new Mayor of New York City.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/14/californias-billionaires-rage-at-huge-tax-bill-for-migrants/

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Buying a Fix

The billionaires are spending some of their cash to win a political fix.“It’s time for Silicon Valley to actually get involved and organized in California,” said Gerry Tan, an investor in many tech companies. “I will fight,” said Fang, the DoorDash founder who has funded many prior political battles.

On January 13, they won support from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is planning his own run for President in 2028. “This will be defeated — there’s no question in my mind … I’ll do what I have to do to protect the state,” he told the New York Times, which added:

While Mr. Newsom helped stop past wealth tax bills in the State Capitol, the new proposal is being driven by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West through the initiative process and beyond the reach of his veto pen.

“I want to be adamant and very clear: This is a ballot measure we are putting on the ballot,” [Suzanne Jimenez, the chief of staff for the labor union] said. “We’re going to have voters vote on it in November.”

But the billionaires have yet to offer any concessions to the many millions of American voters who have lost wages and wealth amid the billionaires’ stock-market boom and far-left political advocacy.

Those wealth-sharing concessions could include elite support for ending the Extraction Migration economy that damages ordinary Americans. The billionaires might even offer curbs on the H-1B visa program that is deliberately used to push millions of American college graduates out of productive and innovative careers.

“They should take the same lesson that an element of the business community took in the 1920s,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He added:They saw the political changes related to [1920s] anarchism … and immigration, and they concluded that it might be worth paying a nickel an hour more [in wages] to have American workers instead of these kinds of political consequences. Obviously, the nickel an hour doesn’t apply anymore here, but it’s the same concept: cheap [migrant] labor not only creates a lot of welfare costs and political costs.

In 1924, Congress passed an immigration reform that set the stage for the United States’ dominance in the 20th Century.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/14/californias-billionaires-rage-at-huge-tax-bill-for-migrants/

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Migration Grows Poverty

The billionaires may be able to buy a short-term victory.But they are struggling against a self-created political tide in many states where voters have been pushed on their backs by flat wages and rising home costs caused by migration.

In those states, many progressives are eager to drain vast wealth and political power from the billionaire class for their left-wing priorities. States should “follow examples like what is being proposed in Rhode Island, Michigan, and other states,” said a January 12 press statement from a union-led group titled May Day Strong.

“A millionaire tax [in Massachusetts] has generated at least $5.7 billion in revenue since 2023 to pay for schools, public transit, and infrastructure,” the “Tax the Rich Policy” statement said. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) is slammingthe pro-migration technology donors in California, including FWD.us leader Reid Hoffman, as well as Dustin Moskovitz, Marc Andreessen, and Patrick Collison:Hoffman wants Democratic candidates to stand with the billionaires for higher [water and electricity] costs. Running on small, vague ideas that may also raise costs for families—instead of on full-throated, economic populist ideas—is a terrible plan for winning elections.

In November, predicted Lynn,“anyone who isn’t a billionaire is going to eventually back this [ballot measure], because that’s how democracy works.”

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/14/californias-billionaires-rage-at-huge-tax-bill-for-migrants/

Argentina Logs Lowest Year-End Inflation in Eight Years

Christian K. Caruzo 14 Jan 2026

Argentina’s yearly inflation in 2025 came in at 31.5 percent — the lowest in eight years – the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) announced Tuesday. INDEC, a decentralized entity within the Argentine Economy Ministry, is tasked with measuring Argentina’s monthly inflation rates.

The announcement of Argentina achieving its lowest yearly inflation rate in nearly a decadecame alongside INDEC’s detailed monthly inflation report for December 2025, which the institution measured at 2.8 percent.

The Argentine Economy Ministry published accompanied the announcement with a chart comparing2025’s yearly 31.5 percent inflationrate with previous years — in which2024’s 117.8 percent, 2023’s 211.4 percent, and 2022’s 94.8percent notably stand as the years with the highest measured yearly inflation rates in recent times.

In a social media post, Economy Minister Luis Caputo explained that 2025 ended with thelowest inflation in the past eight years, both in general and core inflation. Caputo described it asan “extraordinary achievement” and said it was accomplished within a context of price readjustment in Argentina, the implementation of a floating exchange rate, and other economic factors.

“The stabilization program based on fiscal surplus, strict control of the money supply, and capitalization of the [Argentine Central Bank] will continue to be the pillars for continuing the disinflation process,” Caputo wrote.“It is increasingly clear that this is the only viable path to definitively eradicate inflation and make Argentina great again,” he continued.

President Javier Milei praised Caputo, who is commonly referred to with the nickname “Toto,” as “The greatest” in a brief social media post.

“Inflation in 2025 was 31.5 percent, the lowest in the last 8 years.When we took office, inflation in 2023 had been 211.4 percent, the highest in the world,” Manuel Adorni, Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina, wrote on social media.

“This is nothing more and nothing less than the result of doing what had to be done. Period,” he concluded. Last week, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced that Argentina has already repaid the United States the $2.5 billion it drew down from a $20 billion swap line President Milei signed with the administration of President Donald Trump.

Although December’s measured 2.8 percent monthly inflation rate stands higher than November’s 2.5 percent according to INDEC’s statistics, Sebastián Menescaldi, president of Argentine finantial monitor company Eco Go, explained to the local newspaper La Nación on Tuesday that the increase in inflation during December was mainly due to the readjustment of meat and fuel prices, both of which contributed nearly one additional percentage point to the consumer price indices.

“This poses a challenge for the government due to its immediate impact, but at the same time it provides some reassurance, as these are one-off increases associated with a price adjustment in key components of the basket that had lagged behind in the run-up to the elections,” Menescaldi reportedly said.

“The challenge is to make the macroeconomic regime more sustainable and return to the downward path of inflation; regional experience shows that this is not a quick process,” Claudio Caprarulo, director of Argentine consulting firm Analytica explained to La Nación.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2026/01/14/argentina-logs-lowest-year-end-inflation-in-eight-years/

14 Jan, 2026 12:48

Details of high-level Ukrainian vote-buying probe released

An anti-corruption agency hasreleased evidence in a cash-for-votes scheme allegedly involving former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko

Western-backed anti-corruption investigators in Ukraine have released whatthey claim is evidence of attempts to establish a parliamentary vote-buying scheme. The move comes after an overnight raid on the office of former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko’s party.

The probe involving an unnamed head of a Ukrainian parliamentary faction was announced late on Tuesday. Timoshenko confirmed on Wednesday that her Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party was targeted.

Shortly after, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO)confirmed filing formal charges and released audio of a conversation in which a suspect is heard discussing alleged bribes. Timoshenko is recognizable in a separate partially-blurred video showing her confrontation with investigators over packed dollar bills. The lawmaker denied wrongdoing and accused law enforcement of political persecution orchestrated by her rivals.

In the recording, the female suspect offers three MPs monthly payments of $10,000 each in exchange for voting as directed. She stated the goal was to undermine the majority held by Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party and its allies in the Verkhovna Rada. She referenced upcoming government appointments requiring parliamentary approval – apparently ones put to a vote on Tuesday. (Apparently the new elections suggested by Trump, will never happen.)

“‘Against’ means you can abstain or skip the vote. There just must not be a ‘yes’ vote. ‘For’ means a ‘yes’ vote,” she said, explaining that instructions would come via the encrypted Signal app.

“It’s strongly recommended that there are no hiccups,” she continued. “We want to finish off this majority, so we can’t give them an inch.”

NABU also released text messages it said were sent by the suspect, mentioning individuals whose resignations and nominations were debated in parliament this week.

Last year, Batkivshchina votes helped Zelensky pass a bill stripping NABU and SAPO of their independence. Timoshenko denounced the agencies created after the 2014 armed coup in Kiev as instruments of Western control. Zelensky reversed the move under pressure from foreign sponsors, who accused him of undermining anti-corruption efforts and threatened to suspend aid.

https://www.rt.com/russia/630948-timoshenko-corruption-record-nabu/

How come have we have not heard of Maduro in the news, since the first couples of days, when he went in NY? Is it possible that Maduro agreed to re-established in a secret island? Just weird we don't have daily news on this.