Sergey Brin, Who Fled The Soviet Union, Now Warns California Could Head The Same Way As He Spends $57 Million Fighting Billionaire Tax

Alphabet Inc. board member and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is also a former resident of California, has warned that the state risks becoming a socialist system like the Soviet Union, as he escalates a $57 million campaign against the proposed billionaire tax. From Soviet Refugee To Billionaire Combatant “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” Brin said in a rare statement to The New York Times. “I don’t want Ca