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Tech’s biggest names sunk a tax on billionaires’ wealth with $425m and a familiar playbook

California saw the most expensive opposition campaign in its history as funding of political campaigns broke records in the US midtermsIn the hours after polls closed on election day, tech industry players began praising Sergey Brin, the co-founder of …

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California voters fail to pass proposed one-time tax on billionaires’ wealth

Campaign over Prop 40, as measure was known, was most expensive in state history, flush with Silicon Valley dollarsCalifornia billionaires won a contentious ballot measure campaign, defeating a proposed one-time tax on their wealth.The bruising campaig…

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