This Billionaire Is Calling Taxes Soviet Oppression

submitted by supersquirrel to aboringdystopia 42 points | 3 comments https://jacobin.com/2026/05/authoritarianism-wealth-tax-soviet-brin > The danger facing the United States is not that California will become the Soviet Union because one of the richest men on earth is asked to pay more tax. The danger is that America is drifting toward something far more familiar from Russia’s recent history: an authoritarian oligarchy in which vast private fortunes coexist with weakened democratic institutions and a corrupt political leader who rewards wealthy loyalists and punishes dissenters.