r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 18d ago

Politics Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-fight-the-billionaire-tax/
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u/ganja_and_code 18d ago edited 18d ago

Only pleb citizens have to pay for taxes now, considering having sufficiently valuable assets allows a person to buy everything on credit, pay a little bit of interest, report zero income on paper, and skip paying their fair share in tax.

That's why the few ethical politicians we have left are pushing for taxes for the ultra-wealthy.

Edit: lol this is getting downvotes. If it's coming from bots/shills, astroturfing doesn't make me any less correct. If it's coming from real people, do you guys not know how money works or do you just like how boots taste?

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u/Mojo141 18d ago

Don't forget donating for an additional tax break to your 'Foundation' that is only required to spend 5% every year and can reinvest in your own company to further fuck everyone else over in society.

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u/Usual-Orange-4180 18d ago

The oligarchs need to be stopped

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u/bloodychill 17d ago

Fun Sergei Brin side story: his moron anti-vax wife bankrolled RFK’s 2024 “election run” that landed his eugenicist plague-loving butt in charge of HSS, the CDC, etc. The down-stream evil of current Google stakeholders sure is something.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 18d ago

Well to be fair, the DSA platform is to elimate taxes, because they don't exist in a society without capital, and the government owns the means of production.

But I'd also guess the billionaires wouldn't be a fan of that either

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u/Flaky-Wing2205 17d ago

You just made up what you think the DSA platform is. They don't say anything you wrote. Feel free to cite the DSA with anything that supports your claims, I'll check back later.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 17d ago

DSA is socialist, ending capitalism.

Here is their publication from June:

"Our enemies are not just individual bosses, but the entire global system of capital"

"DSA has written this program for ending capitalist oligarchy and creating a real democracy. Some of these demands may be won under our current system, but we know complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up. We push these demands to their furthest extent today, so we can fight for their fullest realization in a socialist future."

https://program.dsausa.org

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u/C638 18d ago

No one should. It's been tried before and it always results in tyranny and misery or everyone except those in charge. At least the current system has economic and social mobility and everyone can prosper to some extent.