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As Trump Weighs Cutting Capital Gains Tax, Sanders Wants To Raise It On Billionaires

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The president is reportedly considering cutting the capital gains tax as a pandemic relief measure, claiming doing so will create jobs.

We talk to Roben Farzad, host of Public Radio's Full Disclosure, about how this compares to the Make Billionaires Pay Act, which would raise the capital gains tax to 60% for billionaires and only for the period from March to this coming January.

This segment aired on August 11, 2020.

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