A Cynical Ploy to Block California’s Wealth Tax

Sergey Brin preemptively fled to Nevada to dodge $12 billion, then dropped $102 million rigging two decoy propositions designed to cancel out the wealth tax he's scared of. He named one of them fiscal responsibility. A man worth hundreds of billions is terrified of 5 percent once.

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“Plan A is to convince voters that Prop 40 is unwise via a barrage of TV and social-media ads.” Plans B and C are Props 41 and 42, which take advantage of a feature of California law: “If two conflicting ballot measures pass in the same election, the one with more votes prevails.”

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