taxing

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Steyer said he would vote for the tax, but he agreed that state leaders ought to go further, including by taxing corporate interests more.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

She thinks Polanski "seems to have good ideas about taxing the rich", adding: "I'm really fed up with getting poorer and poorer as I get older."

From BBC • May 1, 2026

But the Joint Committee previously estimated that taxing carried interest as income would raise $63.1 billion over a decade, and that cracking down on derivative contracts could raise $16.5 billion in that time frame.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

“I get the appeal of taxing the millionaires. It would be different if I was making millions every single year. But I was a thousandaire for many years,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas