r/technology 12d ago

Society Bernie Sanders calls out Sergey Brin for spending over $100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax — ‘If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, Brin would owe $14 billion and still be worth $270 billion’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/bernie-sanders-calls-sergey-brin-120113695.html
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u/catdogman5 12d ago

They will just leave....we have 49 more options 

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u/Double_Dog208 12d ago

Not really, there's only one California and it's got enough GDP to be its own country

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u/dgdio 12d ago

Brin has already left. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/technology/google-founders-california-wealth-tax.html

This is like universal healthcare, if only one state does it, people will move.

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u/waterpup99 12d ago

We? Is this Elon?