Bernie Sanders Floats 95% Corporate Tax Targeting Biggest U.S. Companies
- New levy would mean up to 75% taxation on corporate profits
- Tax would only apply for the next three years, as crises abate
Bernie Sanders
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Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing to tax some profits of the largest U.S. corporations as much as 95% in a new bill that would seek to collect more revenue from the largest U.S companies, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chevron Corp., that are earning more than they did before the pandemic and war in Ukraine.
“We cannot allow big oil companies and other large, profitable corporations to continue to use the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic and the specter of inflation to make obscene profits -- by price-gouging Americans at the gas pump, the grocery store or any other sector of our economy,” Sanders said in a statement.