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Bernie Sanders calls out Google's co-founder Sergey Brin for spending over $100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax - If passed, its one-time 5% wealth tax, he would owe $14 billion and sti

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Bernie Sanders calls out Google's co-founder Sergey Brin for spending over $100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax - If passed, its one-time 5% wealth tax, he would owe $14 billion and stihttps://www.benzinga.com/news/politics/26/08/61141676/bernie-sanders-calls-out-sergey-brin-for-spending-100-million-to-defeat-californias-billionaire-tax-as-google-co-founders-fortune-soarsOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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He'll spend $15 billion if that's what it takes to stop a $14 billion tax.

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Let him. Someone who isn’t a billionaire has to get paid for that garbage to get disseminated, and god knows billionaires aren’t competent enough to run an ad campaign alone. And as recent primaries and elections have shown, there is a ceiling to what money can buy when it comes to votes. Maybe threatening to tax the rich can be a new jobs program 🤷‍♂️

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