Make Billionaires Pay Act

H.R. 8020 · 116th Congress · Aug 11, 2020 · Lineage

A BILL

To impose an emergency tax on the increase in wealth of billionaires during the COVID–19 pandemic in order to pay for all of the out-of-pocket healthcare expenses of the uninsured and under-insured, including prescription drugs, for one year.

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This Act may be cited as the “Make Billionaires Pay Act”.

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Aug 11, 2020viewing Introduced in House Ms. Omar (for herself, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Hastings, and Ms. Jayapal) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

Make Billionaires Pay Act

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