Biden says it’s time for richest Americans to pay ‘their fair share’ of taxes

President hit the road on Monday to promote infrastructure and welfare spending plans totaling about $4tn

Joe Biden said it is time for corporations and the richest Americans to start paying their fair share" of taxes as he hit the road on Monday in a concerted effort to promote his administration's huge new infrastructure and welfare spending plans totaling about $4tn.

Speaking at a community college in Norfolk, Virginia, on Monday afternoon, the US president made the case for increasing taxes on the wealthiest in the US in order to help fund his ambitious $1.8tn American Families Plan and $2tn infrastructure plan.