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Bezos who claims that even though he sits on a bazillion dollars worth of wealth, he actually only made $83,000 last year. i'm not kidding. so he pays less in federal income taxes than the average boston public school teacher. that is a system that is rigged and the american people have had it up to here with that. so this is our chance. here we are. we're putting together a package to make investments in child care, in home and community-based care, expanded medical care, fighting against climate change and we have a chance to say, jeff bezos, you and the other 700 billionaires are actually g...

And, sure, i'd like to see us raise corporate rates, raise individual rates, but that's not going to solve the problem. right now billionaire people and businesses and corporations are paying little to nothing in taxes, and that is wrong. so we have an opportunity right now to do a billionaire's tax for -- yeah, jeff bezos, i'm looking at you. these guys who declare $83,000 in income and, of course, control billions of dollars in assets and companies like amazon that declare $10 million in profits publicly and pay nothing in taxes. if we come in and do a tax on the fewer than 700 billionaires ...

The difficulty of trying to figure out exactly how this is supposed to, work exactly how this will be enforced, in a matter of a few days, strikes me as more than one the congressman called a bit of a stretch. >> the staff of the senate finance committee has a big head start, on it because chairman has been thinking about it himself, and toying with different plans. ways and means on the house side, there they are not ready for this, let's listen to what senator warren said to you rachel in the last hour. >> we have an opportunity right, now to do a billionaires tax, for yes jeff bezos i'm loo...

Benefits clearly and definitively outweigh the risks. i think that's true. if you look at what happened to the 5 to 11-year-olds so far, there's about 1.9 million cases in the age group, about 83,000 -- i'm sorry, 8,300 hospitalizations. one third of those hospitalizations have required an icu admission. about 2,000 cases of multisystem inflammatory disease, and about 140 deaths. so children can suffer and be hospitalized and die from this virus. then the question becomes, is it safe? what do we know about the safety? we know there was a 2400-child study, 1600 got the vaccine, 800 got placebo,...

Universal preschool, and expanded health care, and fighting back against climate change, but also that we pay for it in a way that helps unrig the system at least a little bit, t raise corporate rates, raise individual rates, but that's still not going to solve some of the key problems. right now billionaire individuals and billionaire, profitable corporations are paying either little or nothing in taxes, and that is wrong. so we have an opportunity right now to do a billionaire's tax for, yeah, jeff bezos. i'm looking at you. these guys who declare $83,000 in income and, of course, control bi...