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Shots Fired: Warren Takes Aim at Bloomberg's Billionaire Status

posted onNovember 8, 2019
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Article snippet: The former New York City mayor is actively preparing to enter the presidential race “designating himself as a candidate in at least one state with an early filing deadline,” the New York Times reported Thursday. However, the paper quoted an advisor who indicated that Bloomberg has yet to make an official decision. Warren, who has championed her “Ultra-Millionaire Tax,” took a shot at the billionaire following the report, encouraging him to fill out her calculator “for the billionaires.” “Welcome to the race, @MikeBloomberg! If you’re looking for policy plans that will make a huge difference for working people and which are very popular, start here,” she wrote, providing a link to her calculator: “Some billionaires seem confused about how much they would pay under Elizabeth’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax. Don’t worry, now we have a calculator for that too,” Warren’s website states. The calculator asks the user if he or she is a billionaire. If the user chooses “no,” the calculator provides a list of well-known billionaires and encourages the user to “pick a billionaire to see how much they would pay under Elizabeth’s wealth tax.” Bloomberg is included on the list. “MIKE BLOOMBERG WOULD PAY $3.079 BILLION NEXT YEAR UNDER ELIZABETH’S WEALTH TAX,” her calculator states in all caps. It adds: As reported in October, Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton have been reportedly keeping an eye on the Democrat primary, although many Democrats believe neither would officially jump into the ... Link to the full article to read more

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