Billionaire Tax Hits Critics as Biden Pushes for Budget deal
We ran the numbers: There are 2811 news articles covering this topic. 63% (1787) are left leaning, 27% (749) are center, and 10% (275) are right leaning.
On Monday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ripped the Democratic proposal for an annual tax on billionaires’ investment gains. While left-leaning articles highlight that President Biden’s big domestic policy plan is being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant colleagues, right-leaning articles highlight that a top House Democrat threw doubt on a new Senate plan to tax the capital gains of billionaires.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that President Biden’s big domestic policy plan is being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant colleagues. How to pay for it remained deeply in flux Tuesday.
The Hill published a centrist article reporting that Musk had the highest net worth on Forbes’ list of billionaires. Musk wrote a letter meant to be addressed to a congressional lawmaker that says, “I expect you to oppose the Wyden proposal to tax unrealized capital gains.”
A right-leaning article by Fox Business highlights that a top House Democrat threw doubt on a new Senate plan to tax the capital gains of billionaires. Representative Richard Neal said that the told Wyden during a discussion that the administration of the senator’s proposed billionaire’s tax is “a bit more challenging.”
From the right
Key House Democrat skeptical of billionaire tax, calls it 'challenging' to implement
Fox Business