Humiliation for Biden as Democrats’ Billionaire Income Tax proposal targeting America’s 700 most wealthy is SCRAPPED just hours after being unveiled
- The billionaire’s tax proposal was introduced by Senator Ron Wyden today
- It would have levied taxes on unrealized gains in the ultra-wealthy’s financial assets like stocks and bonds, rather than just a capital gains tax
Democrats’ proposal for a new billionaire’s tax to pay for Joe Biden‘s Build Back Better agenda has reportedly been scrapped on Wednesday, the same day details for the proposal were rolled out.
It was introduced by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) earlier today.
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, said during a press conference the tax is ‘out of the Biden plan.’
The proposed tax would have hit the gains of those with more than $1 billion in assets or incomes of more than $100 million a year and will provide funding for the president’s sweeping $2 trillion social reform and climate change spending bill.
Republicans criticized the billionaires’ tax as a ‘harebrained scheme,’ and some have suggested it would face a legal challenge.
Even some Democrats voiced concerns – Neal said earlier that he told Wyden the billionaires’ tax may be more difficult to implement than the route his panel took in simply raising rates on corporations and the wealthy.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia told Huffington Post that he feared the tax could ‘disrupt markets.’
‘The devil’s in the details,’ Warner said.
The plan finally folded six hours after being announced when moderate Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), one of two members of the president’s party in the upper house who have been roadblocks to Biden’s ambitious social reform and climate change plans, voiced concerns
Biden touted a so-called ‘wealth tax’ while on the campaign trail in 2020
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