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California's wealth-tax vote turns into a referendum funded by the wealth it targets

Fortune, Oct 3 · read the original

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent upward of $102 million to defeat Proposition 40, the state's one-time 5% billionaire tax, the single largest donor against a measure backed by health-care workers ahead of the November 3rd vote; the opposing side's war chest tops $187 million against supporters' roughly $32 million.

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