The Insane Left Wing Law That Is Causing Another Mass Exodus. What Happens Next?

They didn’t get much attention, for obvious reasons — but believe it or not, a handful of white people actually managed to win major civil rights lawsuits during the BLM revolution.

As the largest companies on the planet began discriminating against white employees — denying them promotions, firing them, putting their resumes at the bottom of the pile, and so on — a small number of white people decided to invoke their constitutional rights. They went to court. And they came away with tens of millions of dollars. And we should talk more about these stories, especially since they could inspire more victims of anti-white discrimination to take their case to court.

One of the most egregious examples involved Starbucks, which was run by CEO Howard Schultz at the time. You may remember this sordid episode in American history, when a couple of black guys walked into a Starbucks and sat down without placing an order. The store wouldn’t let them loiter or use the bathroom without making a purchase — which makes sense, since it’s a private business and they don’t want the property to become a crackhouse. But the two black guys decided that this was their “Rosa Parks” moment. They refused to leave to the point that they were arrested for trespassing.

In response, instead of demonstrating a semblance of integrity or courage in the face of a mob, Howard Schultz shut down every Starbucks store for “Racial bias” training, issued a payout to the black customers, attacked his own employees, and groveled on CNN.

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So Howard Schultz went on national television and threw his employees under the bus. He accepted the premise of CNN’s question — which is that these black guys were only thrown out of the store because they were black, even though there was precisely zero evidence of that.

What happened next is that, amid all of this hysteria, Starbucks fired a white manager who had nothing to do with this incident whatsoever. They couldn’t fire the black manager who actually oversaw operations in this particular store. So Starbucks told a white regional manager named Shannon Phillips to terminate a white manager at a nearby district, as a way of demonstrating that Starbucks was serious about racial equity. And when Phillips refused, they fired her instead. She then sued and won more than $25 million.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find a better illustration of how self-described “progressives” like Howard Schultz operate. He makes a big show of major reform in the name of equity. He says that he’ll make Starbucks lobbies and bathrooms open to everyone, whether they make a purchase or not. He goes on national television to berate his employees for being white supremacists. And then, just a few years later, he’s gone from the company. Starbucks has started opening offices in Tennessee for up to 2,000 employees to escape the mayhem of Seattle. The bathroom policy returned because vagrants were treating Starbucks like a crackhouse. And Starbucks has to pay tens of millions of dollars because, in fact, there were no white supremacists working at Starbucks. But Starbucks did have an awful lot of executives who despise the white working class.

But Starbucks isn’t the only thing that Howard Schultz has left in ruins, without any sense of shame or reflection or self-awareness. After decades of relentlessly promoting Left-wing politics, which have destroyed his hometown of Seattle, Schultz has now fled to Florida — just in time to avoid a massive new “wealth tax” that Washington State is implementing. 

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Notice that Schultz — even as he’s abandoning the city where he lived for decades — still can’t bring himself to condemn any aspect of the Left-wing politics that have destroyed Seattle. He can’t condemn the fact that Leftists have turned downtown into a drug den. He can’t condemn the anti-white racism that just cost his company tens of millions of dollars. He can’t even condemn the fact that Leftists are attempting to confiscate 10% of all household income over one million dollars, even though the Constitution of Washington State makes it illegal to tax income. Something like 30,000 residents will be directly affected, although of course, the actual effect is going to be much larger. When businesses close down and rich people leave, the result is fewer jobs and less tax revenue.

It’s important to understand that Howard Schultz is not the exception. There’s now an epidemic of rich Leftists fleeing from Democrat-controlled jurisdictions. These people supported Democrat policies, and now they’re running away from the natural consequences of those policies.

Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023.

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved from California (which is also planning a massive wealth tax) to Florida in the past year.

Ken Griffin, the co-founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who donated to both Obama and Biden, just moved from Chicago — where Citadel employees were getting robbed all the time — to Miami. 

Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, moved from California to Austin.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, who spent half a billion dollars to help Democrats in 2020, just announced the purchase of a mansion in Miami, so he’s apparently leaving California as well. 

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And on and on it goes. We are witnessing a mass exodus of billionaires from states that have been destroyed by their politics. In every case, these billionaires either endorsed Left-wing policies or didn’t object as those policies were taking hold. And now that things have gotten out of hand — and major American cities are becoming overtly socialist — they’re all running away.

And as you just heard, it’s not just the billionaires who are fleeing. Here’s one way to put the numbers in context: Right now, without any foreign migration, California would lose something like 120,000 people per year. New York would lose around 100,000. On the other hand, Texas is on track to gain hundreds of thousands of residents, even without any foreign migration. So is Florida. So a lot of people — not just the wealthy — are escaping these hellholes that Democrats have created. For the most part, the only people who are willing to live in New York (or downtown Los Angeles) are coming here from the third world. Those are the only people who see America’s urban centers as tolerable places to live.

These are the kind of people who are doing most of the damage, by the way.

????BREAKING: Washington State passes their first ever income tax. Incomes over $1M/year will be taxed at 9.9%. Married couples share A SINGLE $1M exemption, so if combined incomes are more than $1M, you’re getting taxed. This will obviously eventually extend beyond millionaires.… pic.twitter.com/A8hy6L7Tuz

— Autism Capital ???? (@AutismCapital) March 11, 2026

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These are lawmakers in Washington State, after they passed the wealth tax there. It’s a group of women who are elated — they’re genuinely thrilled — to be taking other people’s money. They’re making a major change to the state’s economy, without any understanding of what’s going to happen. Overnight, they’ve transformed Washington from a very desirable state for high-income earners to one that high-income earners have every reason to flee. And we know how this ends. Countries like France, Ireland, and Sweden have all implemented wealth taxes. And in every case, the wealth taxes were ultimately repealed, because they ended up losing money for the government when all the rich people left town. A study in Switzerland found that, if you increase the wealth tax by 0.1%, the total amount of taxable wealth declines by 3.5%.

But Democrats in Washington State aren’t concerned about any of this. They have an openly socialist female mayor in Seattle who admits that she relies on her parents to pay her bills, even though she’s 43 years old. So their plan, apparently, is to “girlboss” their way through this. And CNN is going to help run cover for them. 

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CNN’s Erin Burnett runs cover for 43-year-old Socialist Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson for never having a real job and still living off her parents, while her husband refuses to work, but wants taxpayers to cover her childcare. pic.twitter.com/fjDmNLivHA

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) November 14, 2025

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The problem here is not that this woman’s parents are sending her money so that she can afford to raise a child. The problem is that she’s a 43-year-old socialist who’s never had a real job in her life. Contrary to what CNN claims, she has no meaningful accomplishments whatsoever, aside from holding elected office. That’s why she needs the money. She also has a deadbeat husband who chooses not to work. He’s been unemployed for something like five years. And while that situation is obviously sad, it’s also disqualifying. This is not the kind of person you want to lead your city. The only way she knows how to solve her problems is to rely on other people’s money. That’s it. That’s her only qualification. And you simply can’t run a functioning city like that.

It would be one thing if these women could point to a way in which all of their government spending, to this point, has actually benefited American taxpayers. But they can’t do that, because government spending is mostly fraudulent. Whenever Democrats implement massive taxes, they squander the money on fraud and non-profits that launder the money.

Take a look at this data, which was collected by the researcher Charlie Smirkley.

NY State Comptroller, March 2026. @CharlesSmirley

As Smirkley puts it, quote, “New York City spends more per homeless person than the median NYC household earns: $81,705 per person in Fiscal Year 2025.” 

I’ll say that again. New York is spending more money per homeless person than the median household earns. They’re spending enough to provide housing for everyone, in other words. That’s roughly 200% more than what New York City was spending on “homeless people” compared to 2019. And guess what? In that period, by most estimates, the homeless population increased by at least 30%. Some estimates say the increase was closer to 80%.

And this is nothing new. Portland has similar numbers. So does San Francisco.

Source: SF HSH @charlessmirkley

They spend over $100,000 per homeless person, as of last year. That’s a roughly 200% increase from 2019. And once again, homelessness has simply increased.

So where did the money go? It went to Democrat-aligned non-profits, NGOs, and activists.

They waste tens of millions of dollars all the time. Here’s just one example of how that works.

This is from Los Angeles:

City of Los Angeles bought a Ramada Inn for $10.2 million to house homeless

Since then, they started sending money to a NGO to takeover the project. Its now sat vacant for 4 years and $20 MILLION has been spent, meant to house only 32 people

No work being done. Money laundering… pic.twitter.com/kdviHNulsG

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 16, 2026

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None of these nonprofits has any incentive to actually fix the “problem of homelessness” because if they did that, the money would disappear. If anything, they have an incentive to make the problem worse — which is exactly what’s happening. They certainly don’t have any incentive to tell the truth, which is that “fixing homelessness” is impossible. Practically speaking, you can’t force people not to become drug addicts. You can’t force people not to alienate their family and friends. Even if “PATH” had built that hotel for the homeless, it still wouldn’t have helped them. They would’ve just destroyed the place. If you want to “fight homelessness,” the best you can do is create the economic conditions where people can get jobs, and close the border so that fentanyl doesn’t flow into the country. And Democrats oppose all of that.

What Democrats stand for, instead, is the prospect that the government should seize even more money from private citizens and corporations. We’re meant to ignore all of the waste and conclude that the real problem is that taxes simply aren’t high enough. 

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Net worth of the billionaires opposing California’s wealth tax:

Elon Musk: $844 billion
Larry Page: $262 billion
Sergey Brin: $243 billion
Mark Zuckerberg: $228 billion
Larry Ellison: $209 billion

Yes. We must tax billionaires. And it starts in California. pic.twitter.com/3VtY8QXQJM

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2026

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There are a couple of problems here, starting with the assumption that billionaires have all of their money in a bank account. They don’t. If you want a billionaire to pay a massive new tax, he’s going to have to offload a lot of company stock. And when all of the rich people are forced to sell their stock, the market will tank, and everyone’s 401K will plummet. That’s the first issue. 

The second issue is that there’s a reason that most major corporations aren’t paying much income tax. In many cases, they’ve lost a lot of money when they were starting up, so they’re offsetting their current profits with their previous losses. And in other cases, they’re issuing stock grants or investing in new factories, which they’re allowed to write off because we want businesses to invest in infrastructure. It’s much better for the American economy if companies like SpaceX or Tesla invest in their own growth, instead of Bernie Sanders taking the money and redistributing it to some Left-wing NGO. We want rockets and robots, not more Somali daycares and lear-ing centers.

But even if you don’t buy any of those arguments, the fact remains that no tax — no matter how big — would actually be sustainable. If Bernie Sanders rounded up every billionaire in the country and forced them to liquidate all of their assets, and immediately surrender every dime to the U.S. Treasury, the resulting money would fund the U.S. federal government for roughly 10 months. Yes, 10 months. That’s it. In exchange for crashing the stock market, bankrupting every billionaire, and sending a clear signal that no one should ever build a new company in the United States ever again, we’d get just 10 months of free spending.

That’s why — unless we want to end up like Cuba, where the lights haven’t been working for the past two days — it’s vitally important to emulate what the Red states are doing. The Red states, particularly Florida and Texas, are attracting tens of thousands of new residents precisely because their governments have rejected the ideology of the deadbeats that have seized power in New York, Washington State, and California.

The problem is that most of these new residents aren’t renouncing the socialist ideology that they’re running away from. They’re like a Mongol horde, obliterating one town before moving on to the next.