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The proposal positions the Democratic presidential candidate between rivals Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden on a contentious issue.
July 29 -
The House voted overwhelmingly to repeal a tax Wednesday intended to fund the Affordable Care Act, preserving tax breaks for employer-sponsored insurance plans favored by large corporations.
July 18 -
Senator Bernie Sanders says most people in America will have to pay more in taxes to pay for his Medicare-for-All plan. But he insists that’s a good deal — and will save people money overall by lowering health costs.
July 2 -
Democratic presidential front-runners largely agree on their first tax priority: Scrap the TCJA and institute new levies to pay for social programs.
June 28 -
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will propose canceling the nation’s outstanding $1.6 trillion of student debt and offsetting the cost with a tax on Wall Street transactions.
June 24 -
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders introduced legislation that would impose a tax on trades of all stocks, bonds and derivatives in the U.S., a move he says would help curb Wall Street speculation and help finance his campaign promise to provide tuition-free college and cut student debt.
May 23 -
As more presidential candidates release their tax returns, a picture of Democrats’ charitable giving is beginning to emerge. For the most part, they’re not as generous as most Americans.
April 26 -
The Vermont senator and his wife earned more than $1 million in total income in 2016 and 2017.
April 16 -
The Democratic socialist who promotes policies to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires plans to make public his federal tax returns by April 15.
April 12 -
The Democratic presidential candidate rolled out a proposal to levy a 7 percent tax to raise an estimated $1 trillion from the wealthiest businesses.
April 11 -
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and her husband reported an adjusted gross income of $846,394 on their 2018 federal tax return, with $324,687 of that total coming from her work as an author.
April 10 -
The Democratic presidential candidate is joining in calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, an issue that’s taking hold among the contenders for the party’s nomination in 2020.
March 27 -
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March 12
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Bill Gates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders all want the rich to pay more taxes, but Gates is saying what the Democratic candidates appear to be thinking: Go for the capital gains rate.
March 12 -
Watch out, Wall Street. Democrats, who have so far focused on plans to tax the super-rich, are turning their sights to capital markets.
March 5 -
The Vermont senator and presidential candidate plans to disclose a decade of returns “soon,” he said at a town hall forum on Monday night.
February 26 -
Some of the top Democratic presidential candidates are trying to make a name for themselves by calling for higher taxes on the wealthy.
February 21 -
Higher rates tend to be a good thing for the state and local government bond market, a haven for investors looking for income that’s exempt from federal taxes.
February 5 -
The Vermont senator is considering a second run for president, and said his plan would apply to the wealthiest 0.2 percent of Americans
January 31 -
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., teamed up Wednesday to introduce legislation to tax big companies whose wages are so low that their employees are forced to rely on public assistance programs.
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