On 3/8/3023, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden would propose to raise taxes on corporate stock buybacks and said wealthy Americans would ‘pay their fair share’
Ahead of the release of President Biden’s budget on Thursday, the White House repeatedly signaled that Biden would propose to raise taxes on the wealthy while trashing the tax cuts signed into law by his predecessor Donald Trump as “reckless” and “irresponsible.”
Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden’s budget will cut the federal deficit by nearly $3 trillion over the next 10 years. While declining to go into specifics, as Biden is set to deliver a major address on his budget tomorrow, Jean-Pierre did say that the budget would propose “tax reforms to ensure the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share while cutting wasteful spending on special interests like Big Oil and Big Pharma.”
One of those reforms, which the White House has previously discussed, would be to quadruple the tax on corporate stock buybacks, which the President’s team insists won’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000. Another proposal reported to be in Biden’s budget is a new 20% minimum tax on people worth more than $100 million.
Jean-Pierre would not confirm those specific proposals are in the budget, but she did say that the American people support “making the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.” She also hammered Republicans for vowing to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which the White House contends will cut the deficit by more than $200 billion.
“The last administration added $3 trillion or $2 trillion to the debt when they put forward a really irresponsible piece of legislation that gave tax breaks to the wealthy, especially millionaires and billionaires,” Jean-Pierre said. “That is something that we have had to deal with, and we really have to call out.”
Republicans argued the tax cut were needed to stimulate economic growth, while Democrats have lambasted the law as a handout to the rich.
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