The Man Who Prices Every Home in America Just Priced Himself Out of Washington State.

On June 5th, 2026 — ten weeks after Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed a 9.9% millionaires tax into law — Rich Barton posted eleven words to the world. "Officially a Las Vegas resident. Kids are launched, empty nest achieved." Barton didn't mention the tax. He didn't need to. He's the man who co-founded Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor. The man whose entire career is built on reading signals that other people miss. When the person who prices homes for a living looks at his own state and quietly decides Nevada makes more sense — that's not a personal anecdote. That's a forecast. And buried inside Washington's new tax is a number that should alarm everyone who's counting on the revenue to show up. In this video, I break down: → Who Rich Barton actually is — and why his departure hits differently than Bezos or Schultz → The 1-in-6 math: the threshold that makes the tax go underwater → What Washington's own capital gains tax history tells us about behavioral response → The Bezos-Schultz-Barton trilogy — and what the sequence reveals → The legal challenge that could blow up the revenue before it arrives → Why the 460,000 families counting on the Working Families Tax Credit should be paying close attention #RichBarton #Zillow #Washington #MillionairesTax #Seattle #Nevada #LasVegas #SeattleTax #TheBluntReport #KatieWilson