{"id":989115,"date":"2026-02-02T07:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989115"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:25:42","slug":"google-cofounder-seeds-billionaire-political-effort-amid-wealth-tax-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/google-cofounder-seeds-billionaire-political-effort-amid-wealth-tax-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Google cofounder seeds billionaire political effort amid wealth tax debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Brin, a Google cofounder and one of the wealthiest people in the world, is donating $20 million to a new California political drive weeks after he took steps to leave the state to avoid a possible billionaire tax. <\/p>\n<p>It is Brin&#8217;s largest and most visible political move ever, and it is the primary contribution to seed a $35 million effort by billionaires to fund ballot measure campaigns in California, according to a disclosure obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Brin, a Google cofounder and one of the wealthiest people in the world, is donating $20 million to a new California political drive weeks after he took steps to leave the state to avoid a possible billionaire tax. It is Brin&#8217;s largest and most visible political move ever, and it is the primary contribution to seed a $35 million effort by billionaires to fund ballot measure campaigns in California, according to a disclosure obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989115","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}