Washington … recently enacted a 7% levy on long-term capital gains of more than $250,000
To complete the picture on that, those that earn more than $533,400/year are subject to long term capital gains rate of 20%.
Example: If you held stock of $30m for more than one year's time, and it increased in value to $50m when you sold it a year later, the capital gain from that sale would be $20m. Because your annual income is almost certainly more than $533,400/year, you'd have to pay 20% tax, on the gain. That tax would be $4m to the federal government and in Washington state, you'd pay a 7% tax on the $20m capital gain of an additional $1.4m to the state of Washington. So a grand total of $5.4m in capital gains if you lived in Washington or $4m if you lived in Florida.
Since his move in early 2024, Bezos has sold an estimated $13.6 billion worth of Amazon stock, according to Forbes.
To those that say that rich people only get loans on assets instead of selling assets and getting capital gains this article disagrees with you. So much so that Bezos tried to escape them. So an increase in capital gains at a federal level would tax these billionaires.
edit: removed one incorrect sentence when I switched my example numbers.