{"id":362314,"date":"2021-10-26T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=194408"},"modified":"2021-10-26T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:35:10","slug":"why-not-a-financial-transactions-tax-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/26\/why-not-a-financial-transactions-tax-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not A Financial Transactions Tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Warren &#038; Sanders have also been talking for months about a \u2018wealth tax\u2019. That idea has been rejected outright by nearly all Democrats in Congress and Biden. The latest effort to come up with some wealth tax to pay for the Build Back Better bill is in current discussion in the tax committees in Congress. It proposes to tax just the 745 US billionaires whose wealth increased by $2.1T and 70% just since the Covid crisis began 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/why-not-a-financial-transactions-tax\/\">Why Not A Financial Transactions Tax?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/why-not-a-financial-transactions-tax\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Warren &#038; Sanders have also been talking for months about a \u2018wealth tax\u2019. That idea has been rejected outright by nearly all Democrats in Congress and Biden. The latest effort to come up with some wealth tax to pay for the Build Back Bette&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5725,16968,1078],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362591,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362314\/revisions\/362591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}