Ro Khanna is co-sponsoring a Sanders bill to impose a 5% annual wealth tax on unrealized gains—targeting the very Silicon Valley founders and builders who make up his district. Meanwhile, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is emerging as the rare Democrat willing to audit California's $150 billion spending surge before asking for more, and his fee-cutting housing policy already turned a year of zero market-rate construction into 2,000 new homes. The South Bay is ground zero for the tension between the people building California's economy and the politicians who want to tax and spend it into decline.
Sanders and Khanna want to tax money that doesn't exist on assets you can't sell. The only proportionate response was a one-act play.
While virtue signaling politicians and their donors sip champagne, real builders walk the fire rubble of Pacific Palisades and work with startup founders to create jobs
California bleeds $20-35 billion a year. Steyer wants to raise taxes. Mahan wants to stop lighting money on fire.
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San Jose built ZERO market rate homes in 2024. Then Matt Mahan cut the fees, and everything changed.
The San Jose mayor who actually cut homelessness 23% wants to bring his results-first approach statewide.
A startup founder who actually delivers results vs. Sacramento's endless theater. California finally has a real choice.
When nearly all your campaign cash comes from outside your district, who are you really representing?
Former supporters organize against the congressman as his wealth tax crusade threatens to tank the Bay Area economy.
San Jose's mayor is weighing a run—and his track record of actually fixing homelessness has founders begging him to go statewide.