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Ron Wyden: “I have proposed the billionaire income tax, which would mean that billionaires would pay taxes every year.”

On the recordJune 8, 2022
I have proposed the billionaire income tax, which would mean that billionaires would pay taxes every year.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden outlines a tax proposal aimed at billionaires to fund Social Security.

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