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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 92 articles How are Democrats planning to pay for the Biden Administration's spending proposals? |  | |
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Democrats seek corporate, wealthy tax hikes for $3.5 trillion plan.
PBS Newshour (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 74% • 4 min read
The tax proposal was pitched as potentially raising some $2.9 trillion — but that's a preliminary estimate. That would go a long way toward paying for the $3.5 trillion [infrastructure plan]. The White House is counting on long-term economic growth to be sparked by the legislation to generate an additional $600 billion to make up the difference.
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The proposed top tax rate would revert to 39.6% on couples earning more than $450,000, and there would be a 3% tax on wealthier Americans making beyond $5 million a year. For big businesses, the proposal would lift the 21% corporate tax rate to 26.5% on incomes beyond $5 million. The tax hikes would bring about the most substantive changes in the tax code since Republicans slashed taxes in 2017.
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One Democratic senator vital to the [infrastructure] bill's fate says the cost will need to be slashed to $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion to win his support. [Sen. Joe Manchin cited] in particular his opposition to a proposed increase in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.
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Democrats try to hide a $3 trillion tax increase from voters.
Reason (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 74% • 3 min read - Top long-read
Democrats are ready to raise taxes, but not by nearly enough.
Los Angeles Times (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 78% • 7 min read
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Do you support the Democrat's $3.5T expanded infrastructure plan?
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| | #2 in U.S. News • 9 articles Why is the FEC ruling that a Twitter policy did not violate election laws? | 
The owner of a computer repair shop purportedly obtained a laptop from Hunter Biden. The president's son never returned to pick up the device, and it was turned ove...
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| SPECIAL COVERAGE: AFGHANISTAN
| #1 in World News • 19 articles How many Afghans are at risk when international aid ends? |
The UN secretary-general, speaking at a UN conference seeking $606 million to meet Afghanistan's most pressing needs, said it was too early to say how much [aid] had be...
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| | #2 in World News • 18 articles How could a new ruling coalition impact Norway's oil production? |
Exit polls suggest [Labour leader Jonas Gahr Støre's] center-left party will win 48 seats in Norway's 169-seat parliament, with his preferred three-party coalition on course for a slim majority of 88 MPs. Støre's p...
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| | #1 in Science News • 22 articles Why does a startup want to revive woolly mammoths? |
[Harvard scientist George Church, a pioneer of both DNA sequencing and gene editing] and his colleagues announced Monday that Colossal, a startup focused o...
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| | TODAY'S POLL Should scientists revive extinct species? All votes are anonymous. This poll closes at: 9:00 PDT
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