{"id":1043274,"date":"2026-10-14T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043274"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:44:30","slug":"google-cofounder-sergey-brin-is-biggest-donor-to-group-opposing-californias-proposed-wealth-tax-has-spent-102-million-to-fight-it-heres-how-much-he-may-lose-if-the-bill-is-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/google-cofounder-sergey-brin-is-biggest-donor-to-group-opposing-californias-proposed-wealth-tax-has-spent-102-million-to-fight-it-heres-how-much-he-may-lose-if-the-bill-is-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google cofounder Sergey Brin is biggest donor to group opposing California\u2019s proposed wealth tax; has spent $102 million to fight it; here&#8217;s how much he may lose if the bill is passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google cofounder Sergey Brin has emerged as the biggest donor opposing California\u2019s proposed billionaire wealth tax, contribution $102 million to a political group fighting the measure that could leave him facing tax bill of about $13 billion if approved by voters. The development was reported by Fortune, citing state financial campaign records. As per the campaign fillings, Brin has donated a teal of $102 million to building a Better California, a political action committee campaigning against California\u2019s proposed wealth tax while supporting pro-business, housing and infrastructure policies. The contribution makes him the single largest founder of the anti-tax effort. Opposition groups have collectively raised more than $187 million, compared with roughly $32 million raised by supporters of the measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google cofounder Sergey Brin has emerged as the biggest donor opposing California\u2019s proposed billionaire wealth tax, contribution $102 million to a political group fighting the measure that could leave him facing tax bill of about $13 billion if approved by voters. The development was reported by Fortune, citing state financial campaign records. As per the campaign fillings, Brin has donated a teal of $102 million to building a Better California, a political action committee campaigning against California\u2019s proposed wealth tax while supporting pro-business, housing and infrastructure policies. The contribution makes him the single largest founder of the anti-tax effort. Opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043277,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043274\/revisions\/1043277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}