Sanator Bernie Sanders Proposess
938 billionaires hold $8.2 trillion. A 5% tax could fund $12,000 payments to every working family. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, proposing a 5% annual wealth tax on assets exceeding $1 billion. The bill targets all 938 U.S. billionaires, who hold roughly $8.2 trillion combined, and is projected to generate $4.4 trillion over the next decade. In its first year, every individual in households earning under $150,000 would receive $3,000, meaning a family of four could get $12,000. Remaining funds would expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, raise the minimum teacher salary to $60,000, cap childcare at 7% of income, and fund over 7 million affordable homes. Under the plan, Elon Musk would owe about $42 billion, Bezos and Zuckerberg roughly $11 billion each. Critics argue the projections are overstated and don't account for tax avoidance. The bill has no path forward in a Republican-controlled Congres...