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'BradCast' 5/4/2026 (Billionaires Spending Millions to Lie to Voters About CA's Proposed, One-Time Billionaires Tax, with Harold Meyerson of 'The Prospect')
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- May 5, 2026
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Summary
On today's 'BradCast': Oil and gas prices continue rising as Donald Trump's War on Iran remains unresolved. The Trump Administration ignored the 60-day deadline to seek congressional approval for the Iran War. After several states recently enacted wealth taxes on millionaires, a proposed initiative in California to levy a one-time wealth tax on the state's billionaires has qualified for the November ballot. But Google co-founder Sergey Brin and fellow billionaires are funding a wildly misleading, opposing measure to negate it. The American Prospect's HAROLD MEYERSON explains how wealth taxes work, who benefits, pros and cons, and much more. GOP-controlled states move quickly to eliminate majority-Black districts from their U.S. House maps after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Plus a warning for California voters about late-arriving mail-in ballots.