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On the recordApril 26, 2021
by applying a tax to a number that corporate executives want to have as high as possible, that a book income tax would serve as a backstop to the existing loopholes in the tax code?
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren suggests a book income tax could help close tax loopholes.

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