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Sergey Brin Spent $45 Million to Avoid a Conversation

Sergey Brin donated $45 million this month to defeat a ballot measure that would tax him once. That spending gap is the whole argument. California's wealth tax fight is less about billionaires existing and more about whether any policy can survive their opposition.

By Lena Paige · 3 min read

Finance

938 Billionaires, $8.2 Trillion, and a Tax That Cannot Wait

Sanders and Khanna just proposed a 5% annual wealth tax on America's 938 billionaires, projected to raise $4.4 trillion. The innovation backlash is loud. But when billionaire wealth grew 22% in a single year while 67% of workers live paycheck to paycheck, the real argument isn't about ambition. It's about arithmetic.

By Sadie Park · 3 min read