Tax The Rich

NY Times: Elizabeth Warren Releases Plan to Pay for ‘Medicare for All’ - Ms. Warren would impose huge tax increases on businesses and billionaires to provide free health coverage for all Americans, but she says she would not raise taxes on the middle class. By Thomas Kaplan, Abby Goodnough and Margot Sanger-Katz

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed $20.5 trillion in new spending through huge tax increases on businesses and wealthy Americans to pay for “Medicare for all,” laying out details for a landmark government expansion that will pose political risks for her presidential candidacy while also allowing her to say she is not raising taxes on the middle class to pay for her health care plan.