It's Tuesday, April 6th. I'm Keela Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what a day where we are still grateful to Dolly Parton

for single-handedly making the COVID vaccine.

Yeah, a lot of people don't know this, but she actually wrote,

I will always love you, Joline and the COVID vaccine in the same day.

On today's show, a new potential way to vaccinate the world, then some headlines.

But first, the latest, where it is all about taxes.

And Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is making the case that big US corporations should

be paying up.

It's about making sure that governments have stable tax systems that raise sufficient

revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises.

That was Yellen talking to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs yesterday.

That's right.

So, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said, you go and pay what you owe to corporations

by proposing a minimum global corporate tax.

That means if a company thinks it can leave America just to skip out on paying taxes,

while still doing business here, we gon' getcha.

So she cited a, quote, 30 year race to the bottom where countries competed with one another

to attract businesses.

But that just resulted in an erosion of investment in public goods.

In effect, those higher corporate taxes would be a strategy to fund Biden's $2.3 trillion

infrastructure plan.

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