Some Democrats Are Trying to Preemptively Outlaw a Billionaire Tax

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Some Democrats Are Trying to Preemptively Outlaw a Billionaire Tax

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Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Sensing its popularity, Obama’s former Supreme Court lawyer and a Louisiana Democrat are using an obscure corporate taxation case to try to make a federal wealth tax illegal before it even exists.

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Why would they want to tax themselves?

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