Sergey Brin knows theevil of socialism— and he’s decided to stop it from coming to California.
The Google co-founder issued a rare statement this week slamming the left’s “billionaire tax” — to which Gov. Gavin Newsom has onlyoffered the weakest opposition.
“I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” Brin said. “I don’t want California to end up in the same place.”
He’s right — because that’s exactly where the “billionaire tax” is taking us.
Theleft wing of the Democratic Party— which is particularly strong in California — is excited about the tax, and the prospect of seizing 5% of the wealth of the richest people in the state.
It’s just the billionaires, they say — those who have benefited the most from the system, including everything the government has provided them, from roads to running water.
But that’s just where it starts. Socialism never stops with the most obvious targets. It always expands.
Critics of the billionaire tax argue, convincingly, that the language of the proposal allows politicians to change the plan, and tax the wealth of the middle class.
They’ll have to, because there isn’t enough wealth in the hands of billionaires to fill the bottomless pit of public health care spending in California, especially after Newsom expanded it to millions of illegal aliens.
Brin is correct to speak out — and the only question is why he didn’t do so earlier.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
