Sergey Brin has now spent $100M to fight the billionaire tax

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Sounds like a good investment to save $13B+

TBH, it sounds more like robbery to me. That is dictated by the majority doesn’t make it right.

Are you a taxation-is-theft absolutist or is there a line somewhere?

Yes, robbery of the US citizens via sophisticated tax avoidance strategies.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

Good for him.

If we want more tax dollars, eliminate QSBS stacking that allows $750m in cap gains tax free, charge a tax on loans against assets like stocks, get rid of the carried interest loophole, end the step-up on assets distributed via inheritances, fix the corporate tax strategies that the NY Times documented https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/economy/offshore...

But even better, would be to fix the spending & fraud problems and implement Milei style reforms that stop government salaries for elected officials for deficit spending...

The idea of a "one time" tax is so stupid that any person, regardless of income, should oppose it. It just makes no sense whatsoever.

There's one use where it makes a lot of sense though: massive downpayments of government debt. Though it should be paired with an iron-clad obligation (like a constitutional amendment) not to let the debt rise like that again in the future.

Well the government goons will get into debt even if you pay it. They love money printer.

One time wealth tax on unrealized gains in a state that has already high taxes is weird.

Government debt is essentially also a tax, though. Just the kind where you pay an interest.

Good for him, somebody ought to.

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