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Washington state lawmakers target Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires with wealth tax

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New York Times contributor Neil Irwin wrote about wealth taxes in 2019 , citing research that the number of developed countries imposing wealth taxes had dropped from 10 in the early 2000s to just three. Elizabeth Warren pitched a federal wealth tax that would have placed a 3% tax on a family with $1 billion or more of wealth. .

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