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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: What Is A Billionaires Tax?

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Congressional Democrats are proposing an increase in taxes on the billionaires in the country to pay for a their trillion dollar spending bill. The proposal is not clear though and the real workings of it could backfire on its plans. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Chris Markowski, host of the 'Watch Dog On Wall Street', about the plan, what it means to the wealthy and your average investor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm David Asman, and this is the Fox News rundown.

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Friday, October 29th, 2021. I'm Trey Yinks. New details were released this week on a proposed

0:29.1

wealth tax that Democrats are pushing forward in Washington. They want to go and they're saying,

0:33.6

all these people are so rich and they're so wealthy.

0:35.8

They're not Scrooge McDuck.

0:37.2

They don't have this money in cash.

0:39.1

This money is tied up in their companies.

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The new tax would affect around 700 Americans who make a hundred million dollars for three consecutive years

0:54.1

or have a billion dollars in assets. This would be used in part to pay for the

0:57.9

economic agenda of the Biden administration. The tax would raise between

1:01.8

200 and 250 billion dollars, but that's still not enough to pay for the nearly 2 trillion dollars of spending proposed over the next several years.

1:10.0

Well, this is not exactly a wealth tax. Again, they're throwing something, I basically equate

1:19.0

what's going on right now, they're just throwing stuff up on the wall, we know what that type of stuff

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