{"id":75142,"date":"2020-08-07T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=75142"},"modified":"2020-08-07T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:00:04","slug":"sen-sanders-proposes-one-time-tax-that-would-cost-bezos-42-8-billion-musk-27-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2020\/sen-sanders-proposes-one-time-tax-that-would-cost-bezos-42-8-billion-musk-27-5-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Sanders proposes one-time tax that would cost Bezos $42.8 billion, Musk $27.5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Top tech leaders and other billionaires would be forced to hand over billions of dollars in wealth they\u2019ve gained during the coronavirus pandemic under a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/sanders-colleagues-introduce-tax-on-billionaire-wealth-gains-to-provide-health-care-for-all-\" target=\"_blank\">new bill introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders<\/a>, I-Vt., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. The \u201cMake Billionaires Pay Act\u201d would impose a one-time 60% tax on wealth gains made by billionaires<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/08\/06\/sanders-billionaire-tax-bill-would-cost-bezos-musk-zuckerberg.html\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Top tech leaders and other billionaires would be forced to hand over billions of dollars in wealth they\u2019ve gained during the coronavirus pandemic under a new bill introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75143,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142\/revisions\/75143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}