
Bernie Sanders Just Proposed A Tax That Would Instantly Cost Bezos $42.8 Billion...
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenBut that's the vision that Bernie Sanders has for America. Apparently unaware that taxation is no longer necessary, as the Fed can now solve the country's money problems with its printing press, Sanders has proposed a "Make Billionaires Pay Act" that would impose a "one-time 60% tax on wealth gains made by billionaires between March 18, 2020, and Jan. 1, 2021," according to CNBC.
The proceeds from the tax would be used to pay for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses for all Americans for one year, Sanders says. It would tax $731 billion in wealth accumulated by 467 billionaires since March 18, his PR says.
Essentially, the tax amounts to a massive charge for many executives who have seen their wealth shoot up during the pandemic. The boost in asset prices, of course, has nothing to do with those executives and everything to do with monetary policy. Sanders, like the rest of the left, still hasn't figured out the problem is the Central Banks - not the billionaires. But we digress.