Google-Mitbegründer gibt 45 Millionen US-Dollar für den Kampf gegen die Milliardärssteuer in Kalifornien aus | Sergey Brin spendet 25 Millionen Dollar zusätzlich zu den 20 Millionen Dollar, die er bereits an Super Pac gegeben hat, um die vom Staat vorgeschlagene Vermögenssteuer von 5 % zu blockieren
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-sergey-brin-california-billionaire-tax
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how much money will these assholes spend in order to avoid having to spend money? god forbid the money they spend would actually go towards doing some good.
Those „do no evil“ days are long gone at Google.
These people are nothing but shit. Unfortunately, unlike X, Facebook and Instagram, Google is so hard to completely avoid.
Paying the taxes would be cheaper
Fuck
These
People
Some of the major issues below:
>Brin is not alone among Google’s top brass in upping his financial stake in the campaign against the ballot proposal. The company’s former CEO Eric Schmidt donated $1.02m, adding to a previous $2m contribution.
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>The tech titans are battling the California Billionaire Tax act, often referred to simply as the billionaire tax. It’s a proposed ballot measure that would require any California resident worth more than $1bn to pay a one-off, 5% tax on their assets to help cover education, food assistance and healthcare programs in the state. It’s sponsored by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, and is still in the signature-gathering phase.
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>If the measure reaches the ballot and gains voters’ approval, the tax would apply to billionaires based on their residency as of 1 January 2026. For Brin, worth about $247bn, the bill would likely be upwards of $12bn. That stipulation appears to have caused him and several other billionaires to leave California at the end of last year. Brin relocated to a $42m estate on the north-eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and his Pac donations show Reno as his address. Schmidt’s filings show his address as West Hollywood.
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>Brin donated $20m to Building a Better California in January, bringing his total donations to the Pac to $45m. Brin has also contributed to the state’s gubernatorial campaigns of Steve Hilton, the Republican frontrunner, and Democrat Matt Mahan, who is seen as tech-friendly and is a favorite among Silicon Valley elites.
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>Schmidt also donated to Building a Better California in January, with a $2m contribution, making his total just over $3m to the Pac. The former CEO has also given $1.04m to another Super Pac fighting the billionaire tax called the California Business Roundtable.
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>Along with Schmidt’s contribution, the California Business Roundtable has also received donations from Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel ($3m), Ring founder James Siminoff ($100,000) and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen ($750,000). Building a Better California has also gotten money from Larsen ($2m), along with DoorDash CEO Tony Xu ($2m) and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison ($7m). Several prominent venture capitalists have also shelled out to both Pacs.
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>Brin has become increasingly involved in politics over the past two years, along with much of Silicon Valley. He attended a White House dinner last year, where Donald Trump called his girlfriend, wellness influencer Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, a “really wonderful Maga girlfriend”. Brin’s former wife is Nicole Shanahan, who was Robert F Kennedy Jr’s running mate for president in 2024. Schmidt has less of a presence in the Trump White House, but actively worked with both the Obama and Biden administrations.
The key takeaway here is that the billionaires and other wealthy and well-connected are really making the case here for this wealth tax: If they can put their thumbs on the scale in this way for this ultimately minor regulatory issue, how else are they weighting the scales in their favor? And should anyone really be allowed to do so? Further, it’s clear that they have more money than they know what to do with, so in a way a wealth tax for the ultrawealthy can help them with this problem.
Nothing says “this tax might be a good idea” quite like spending $45 million trying to kill it.
„You just want to tax the rich so you can give their money to someone else!“
-No, I want to tax the rich so they can’t buy elections, media, armies, and Pedophelia with impunity.
„Too late…“
~~Don’t~~ Be Evil
These are the soulless of society. The voids of empathy that feed upon others. They are leeches, harming millions.
Doesn’t this prove the point that we should tax them out of their status if they’re going to use it to undermine the countries they live in? They’re a literal cancer.
Personal growth is all that matters to them. They’ll gladly shoot themselves in the foot, if it means the shrapnel might hurt the plebs.
How could any of them get by with 5% less money?!
His net worth would go from $247bn to $235bn. He still would have more than enough to buy whatever he wanted for the rest of his life. He’ll never worry about money, healthcare, bills or groceries. Neither will his children, grandchildren or great grandchildren. And yet these disgusting fucks are fighting tooth and nail against this tax.
It’s a one off 5% tax…. Good lord. How greedy are these people!!
Citizens United will go down in history as one of the court’s worst decisions, and as a significant factor in the downfall of the USA.
Translation: Sergey Brin is a dildo.
„For Brin, worth about $247bn, the bill would likely be upwards of $12bn.“
So, for comparison because larger numbers break brains, he is spending 0.00375% of what he’d be taxed to help Californians who also live there. Maybe a single person shouldn’t be able to spend multiple hundreds of times more money than an average person makes in a year to avoid paying to help those people.
Perhaps no one should have that much money in general.
What an asshole.
There are some major technical flaws in the proposed California bill. The bill is not actually calculated as 5% of his wealth. It is a much more complicated and very strange formula that would force him to give up control of Google. He does not want to give up control of Google, that is why he is fighting the bill.
I miss when the American wealthy elite wanted to do cool shit like build libraries with their names on it like Carnegie. Or compete and brag about paying their employees well, in order to attract the best people and retain them like Ford.
God the 2026 billionaire ruling class is so fucking lame.
Honestly man, we don’t need billionaires for sure but the wealth tax just seems dumb. We’re going to collect a few billions so we can… cut everyone a check and not reduce the state or federal deficits? This tax does nothing to fix all the overspending. We’re just going to keep borrowing and over leveraging.
If you really want to redistribute billionaires wealth, we need POLITICIAL REFORM! Support raising the minimum wage, support increasing the housing supply, support a single payer healthcare, support getting money out of politics.
Remember “do no evil” anyone?
Fine. No taxes. We eat ‘em instead.
His network worth is $250 billion and 5% is $12.5 billion this would cover the $2 billion for lunch for k-12. The general public doesn’t understand how much money they make on interest or the concept of a billion dollars.
If someone spends the entirety of their $250,000 salary per year, it would take them a million years to deplete the $250 billion bank account.
What a piece of shit.
God these guys suck
Look here, you already have everything you need. Stop sucking us dry!
Insatiable greed. A common theme among the ultra wealthy.
Instead of spending all that money, why not just pay the fucking taxes lol
He’d probably spend less in taxes than he would to fight paying taxes. And it would actually be helpful for society. All these billionaires exist because of decades of government handouts on our tax payer dime so the fact that they want to fight this so hard is just disgusting. They literally are still pushing mops somewhere without OUR damn money carrying their asses for all these years. Imo taxes are not enough. We should just nationalize and take their companies away from them.
These people need to lose everything. See what its like to truly have to struggle for once in their easy bake oven lives. These are not the people who built empires. They are the trust fund babies who barely did anything and were handed everything. That is why they are so damn selfish. they don’t what actually work and struggle are. They never had to do either. The most fitting punishment for the billionaire class of our time is to take all their money and businesses away and force them to live on minimum wage since that is what they believe everyone else deserves.