A proposed wealth tax would apply for a decade to anyone who spends 60 days in California in a single year

The range of people it proposes to ensnare is staggering: every student attending college in California, anyone having a major medical procedure at a California hospital and needing an extended in-state recovery period, and those who spend two months in California away from New York or London winters. Under California tax law, there is no distinction between a nonresident from Minnesota and a nonresident from Dubai.

would include wealth earned, inherited or obtained through gifts or estates long before and long after leaving the state. The proposed wealth tax would fall on a star high-school or college athlete who grows up in California but becomes a wealthy professional in another state after graduation. It would grab a scientist who develops a drug to cure cancer years after leaving California.

I love living in California, but hostile legislation like this makes me impatient to move to the Free State.