Staff Reports
Steven Spielberg, the man who practically invented the modern American blockbuster, has quietly shifted his legal residence out of California and into Manhattan, establishing New York residency on January 1, 2026 and taking a unit in the famed San Remo on Central Park West while his production company opened a New York office. This isn’t a vacation home move — it’s a strategic relocation that screams warning to a state that has spent decades taxing, regulating, and lecturing the people who build real industries.
His publicist insists the move was about family, and Spielberg will doubtless still make movies, but the timing is impossible to ignore: the proposed California Billionaire Tax Act, which would impose a one-time 5 percent levy on fortunes above $1 billion for anyone deemed a California resident on January 1, 2026, looms large. For those who still believe good intentions excuse ruinous policy, watch what people do rather than what they say — when you chase away the job creators, the talent follows the jobs.
This is not an isolated incident; entrepreneurs and creatives are voting with their feet as left-wing policies add up — taxation, hostility to business, and civic decline have produced a steady exodus of capital and talent. From tech founders to entertainment heavyweights, smart people aren’t staying where governments treat them as ATMs, and California’s political class should be held accountable for the shipwreck they’ve engineered.
Make no mistake: Spielberg isn’t retiring — he has a new movie, Disclosure Day, set for a June 12, 2026 release — but the idea that America’s cultural engine must be centered in a single blue superstate is fading fast. Hollywood’s greatest living director moving his household and business ties out of state is a symbolic gut‑punch to the narrative that California remains indispensable; entrepreneurship and creativity flourish where property rights, low taxes, and public safety are respected.
Patriots who love this country should see this moment as a call to action — demand leadership that protects families, rewards hard work, and builds safe communities where kids can grow up and where creators aren’t punished for success. If conservatives want to win back influence over culture and the economy, we stop flattering elites and start offering commonsense policies that keep American talent home.
