{"id":36183,"date":"2021-06-09T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36183"},"modified":"2021-06-09T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T02:05:09","slug":"new-report-reignites-push-for-wealth-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36183","title":{"rendered":"New report reignites push for wealth tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">A blockbuster ProPublica report on the taxes of the richest Americans is reigniting a push from progressives for a wealth tax.<\/p>\n<p>The report, based on tax-return data ProPublica received from an anonymous source, details how prominent billionaires like\u00a0Jeff Bezos\u00a0and\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0have paid little-to-no-taxes in some recent years, particularly when compared to their wealth gains.<\/p>\n<p>The article comes as\u00a0President Biden\u00a0has proposed raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for his major spending proposals. Democrats have increasingly made raising taxes on the rich a top priority in recent years, and some progressives have called for going even further than Biden\u2019s proposals by establishing a wealth tax that would impose taxes on net worth rather than income.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blockbuster ProPublica report on the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36184,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36183\/revisions\/36184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}