Billionaires, man. Greedy motherfuckers.
Brin is worth $266B. A one-time 5% billionaire tax (with the money going to healthcare!) would mean he's left with... $242B. Which that year's rate of growth would trivially earn him back. But he just can't.
You can do a 99% one-time billionaire tax and he'd be left with *2.6 billion dollars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/california-billionaires-sergey-brin-campaign.html
CA has maybe 200 billionaires in a population of ~40 million. Talk about the richest 0.0005%. Greedy motherfuckers.
Jan Schaumann
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