The Jan. 24 anniversary of the California Gold Rush came and passed this year with little mention … for good reason.

When James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill, millions traveled great distances to seek their fortune in the “Golden State.”

Now, 178 years later, California has engineered an inverse Gold Rush, virtually chasing wealth from the state.

Rather than covered wagons going West, there is a line of U-Hauls going anywhere other than California.

From boondoggle projects to reparations, California politicians continue to rack up new spending projects despite a soaring deficit and shrinking tax base. Rather than exercise a modicum of fiscal restraint, Democrats are pushing through a tax that takes 5% of the wealth of any billionaires left in the state.

I have long criticized the “billionaire tax” as perfectly moronic for a state with the highest tax burden and one of the highest flight rates of top taxpayers.

In my new book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, I discuss the reversal of fortunes in California and other blue states as politicians unleash new “eat the rich” campaigns before the midterm elections. 

The problem, of course, is that billionaires........

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