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01/22/2024 Sanders and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Combat Corporate Greed and End Outrageous CEO Pay
01/22/2024 Sanders and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Combat Corporate Greed and End Outrageous CEO Pay
04/18/2023 NEWS: As Republicans Move to Provide a $1.8 Trillion Tax Giveaway to Billionaires, Sanders Introduces Bill to Make the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share
03/16/2023 Murray, 20 Colleagues to IRS and Treasury: Use New IRS Funding to Protect Taxpayer Rights and Increase Tax Enforcement on High-Income Individuals and Large Corporations
01/13/2023 NEWS: GAO Study Finds 34% of Large, Profitable Corporations Pay Zero in Federal Income Taxes
11/01/2022 Tweet - "Oil Profits So Far This Year Exxon:⬆️203% to $43 billion Chevron:⬆️175% to $29 billion BP:⬆️161% to $22.8 billion Shell:⬆️133% to $30 billion Big Oil is using the war in Ukraine as an excuse to make obscene profits by jacking up gas prices. Yes. We need a windfall profits tax."
09/03/2022 Tweet - "If we can afford to give out tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, we can afford to address the needs of the working class. Period."
08/27/2022 Tweet - "Never Forget: 83% of the Trump tax breaks are going to the top 1%. 87% of Biden's student loan benefits are going to individuals making $75,000 or less and 0% are going to the top 1%. Yes. It's about time we stood up for working class families."
08/15/2022 Letter to Hon. Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner of the IRS - Manchin Leads Bipartisan, Bicameral Letter Urging IRS to Clear Backlogs, Address Customer Service Issues
07/29/2022 Tweet - "While you were feeling pain at the pump, Shell, Exxon, and Chevron raked in $46 BILLION in profits over the last three months and said they would spend up to $47 billion on stock buybacks after spending $18.8 billion so far this year. Yes, it's time for a windfall profits tax."
07/14/2022 Letter to Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, Charles Rettig, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service - Menendez, Colleagues Urge Irs to Extend Filing Deadline for Itin Filers Affected by Processing Delays
06/25/2022 Tweet - "Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2022: $35 billion Average Price of Gas today: $4.91 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2019: $13.8 billion Average Gas Price: $2.69 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2015: $13.1 billion Average Gas Price: $2.41 Yes. We need a windfall profits tax."
06/15/2022 Tweet - "President Biden is absolutely right. The big oil companies are making obscene profits gouging working Americans at an unprecedented level. Democrats in Congress should support the president's fight against their greed and enact a windfall profits tax NOW."
05/19/2022 Tweet - "This is what a rigged and corrupt system looks like. Effective Tax Rate: 0.1%: Warren Buffett worth $111 billion 1.1%: Jeff Bezos worth $131 billion 1.8% Mike Bloomberg worth $82 billion 2.1%: Elon Musk worth $210 billion 13.5%: Registered Nurse Yes. It's time to #TaxTheRich"
05/14/2022 Tweet - "No, Mr. Bezos. Disinformation is Amazon spreading anti-union propaganda & forcing workers to attend illegal captive audience meetings. Disinformation is Amazon blaming a 17% price increase on "inflation" while making a record $35 billion in profits & avoiding $5 billion in taxes."
04/27/2022 Tweet - "Federal Income Taxes Paid in 2021: $0: AT&T $0: AIG $0: Dow $0: Charter Communications $0: Salesforce $0: Duke Energy $0: Kinder Morgan Combined profits: $55.6 billion But we're told inflation is rising because a worker got a 50 cent raise & a $1,400 check. #TaxTheRich"
04/18/2022 Tweet - "If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more in taxes than: AT&T in 2021 Tesla in 2021 Amazon in 2017-2018 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It's time to tax the rich."
04/11/2022 Tweet - "If 700 U.S. billionaires could become nearly $2 trillion richer during the pandemic and Trump could provide over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1% and profitable corporations, please don't tell me we can't cancel all $1.8 trillion in student debt for 45 million Americans."
04/07/2022 NEWS: Rep. Jamaal Bowman Introduces The Ending Corporate Greed Act alongside Senator Bernie Sanders
03/27/2022 Tweet - "When we talk about oligarchy in America we are talking about 700 billionaires who became nearly $2 trillion richer during the pandemic & pay a lower tax rate than a nurse while the child poverty rate soared by 41% in January because the expanded Child Tax Credit ended."
03/15/2022 Tweet - "Why is the price of oil LOWER today than it was in 2014 while the average price for a gallon of gas nationwide is 80 cents a gallon HIGHER than it was eight years ago? Answer: Corporate greed. Now is no time for profiteering. Now is the time for a windfall profits tax."
02/28/2022 Tweet - "Starbucks could give every one of its 383,000 workers a $5,000 bonus & still keep $2.6 billion in profits from last year. Instead they're raising prices while spending $20 billion on stock buybacks & dividends when profits are up 31%. Don't blame inflation. Blame corporate greed."
02/17/2022 Letter to Hon. Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner of the IRS - Warner Continues Push to Address IRS Issues Facing Taxpayers
01/31/2022 Tweet - "The American people want the big money industries to start paying their fair share of taxes. They understand that it is absurd that 2 people own more wealth than the bottom 40%, and that the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider than it has been in 100 years."
12/27/2021 Tweet - "The expansion of the child tax credit this year has reduced child poverty in America by 40%. Incredible! But, if Build Back Better is not passed, that provision will soon expire and millions of children will be plunged back into poverty. Pathetic!"
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