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  "path": "/2026/05/authoritarianism-wealth-tax-soviet-brin",
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  "textContent": "Sergey Brin’s family fled Soviet authoritarianism, an experience he’s now invoking to portray a proposed wealth tax as Soviet-style tyranny. Ironically this sort of rhetoric is more likely to bring the US closer to today’s Russia: an unabashed oligarchy.",
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