Rashida Tlaib on fighting billionaire oligarchs: ‘The American people overwhelmingly want to tax the rich’
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#72YJA)
The Democratic representative plans to introduce a bill halting subsidies and tax advantages for the super-rich
They had the best seats in the house. When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president a year ago this week, tech titans Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg were sitting closer than even some of his cabinet picks, living symbols of the US's new gilded age.
It was so gross," Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative from Michigan, recalled in a phone interview. It was like a reunion of all the billionaires. Some of them didn't even like each other, but boy, did they come together for Trump."
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