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Microsoft faces backlash over irresponsible security practices
Microsoft is facing mounting criticism for their lack of transparency and irresponsible security pr…
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One thing both campaigns agree on: bring back money for parents
Parents could get cash if either campaign has their way — and if Congress follows suit.
Juliana Kaplan
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JD Vance has some ideas on how to get Americans to have more babies
Vance, Trump's new running mate, says it's a crisis that the US isn't having enough babies.
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Ron Wyden says Republicans trying to find who gutted the IRS are like 'the guy in the hot dog suit, swearing up and down that they're trying to find the guy who did this'
Wyden was referring to the famous Hot Dog Car sketch from the Netflix series "I Think You Should Le…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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Meet the college basketball player turned US senator who pitched a tax on billionaires like Elon Musk to fund Biden's economic agenda
Sen. Ron Wyden's optimism is being tested in the 50-50 Senate as he tries to bring Joe Manchin onbo…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Harlan Crow's jaunts on his yacht with Justice Clarence Thomas were a 'textbook billionaire tax scam,' Sen. Ron Wyden tells ProPublica
Billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow was accused of using lavish yacht trips with Supreme Court Justic…
Azmi Haroun
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Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: The labor shortage's wage gains are great
For Democrats, the labor shortage is giving workers much-needed power. For Republicans, it's the fr…
Ben Winck
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Elizabeth Warren slams Elon Musk's 'person of the year' title, saying the tax code should be changed so he stops 'freeloading off everyone else'
Sen. Warren shared a tax advocacy group's parody TIME cover of Musk, the world's richest person, wi…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Elon Musk rips the political class again, saying 'government is inherently not a good steward of capital' even though his companies thrived from government subsidies
Musk, TIME's person of the year, became the world's richest man largely thanks to heavily subsidize…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Senate Democrats are leaving the billionaires' tax out of their climate and spending plan due to widespread resistance in their ranks
The tax would have hit 700 billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, compelling them to pay a chu…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana …
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Biden should pause interest on student-loans even after payments resume in February, 14 senators say
Growing student-loan interest is a "daunting challenge" for borrowers and should be waived while CO…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Elon Musk keeps picking Twitter fights with Democrats who want to slash the wealth amassed by the top 1%
Efforts to tax billionaires are on life support in the Senate and have even faced resistance from t…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana …
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A shocking chart shows how Democrats want to give a tax cut to the top 1% that's 6 times bigger than any other wealth bracket
An analysis from the Tax Policy Center shows a huge tax cut for the 1% who make between $500,000 an…
Andy Kiersz,Ben Winck
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Elon Musk would pay 10 times more under Ron Wyden's billionaires' tax than if he sold 10% of his Tesla stake right now
Under Wyden's "billionaires tax," Insider calculates Musk would pay a tax on the $168 billion jump …
Ben Winck,Andy Kiersz
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The billionaires' tax that Elon Musk hates so much would raise $557 billion over a decade, according to nonpartisan committee
Democrats want to tax billionaires on how much their stocks go up, and Musk and some other billiona…
Juliana Kaplan
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Trump bashes Democrats' new billionaire-tax plan and suggests he might flee the US but will 'stick it out'
"I just wonder, will I be allowed to run for president again if I move to another country?" ex-Pres…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Ayelet S…
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Senate Democrats unveil plan to hit 700 billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos with major tax hikes
Tesla CEO Elon Musk would owe up to $50 billion in taxes under the Democratic plan. Amazon founder …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Elon Musk just made $37 billion in a single day. Here's how much he could owe under the Democrats' new billionaires' tax proposal.
Democrats' plan would tax the kind of on-paper capital gains that Musk, the world's richest person,…
Andy Kiersz
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Elon Musk rips Democrats' billionaire-tax plan that could slap him with a $10 billion annual bill
"Eventually, they run out of other people's money and then they come for you," Musk tweeted at the …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Mitch McConnell slams Democrats' proposal to tax billionaires, calling it a 'harebrained scheme' to penalize people who 'invested wisely'
Democrats are floating a "billionaires tax" to fund their social-spending bill, which would include…