Michael Bloomberg is a moderate! Or so we're told.
Yes, he might have no regard for the civil liberties of black people, want to ban everything from sodas to mint-flavored Juul pods, and be a creepy sexist, but at least the former New York City mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate offers voters a moderate alternative, right? Not really.
The candidate released a proposal on Saturday to raise taxes — by $5 trillion. According to Jon Levine of the New York Post, the plan includes “rolling back President Trump’s corporate tax cuts; a new 5% surtax on incomes above $5 million a year; taxes on capital gains; lowering the threshold for the estate tax; and restoring top rates back to the Obama-era 39.6%.”
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