Rashida Tlaib on fighting billionaire oligarchs: ‘The American people overwhelmingly want to tax the rich’

The Democratic representative plans to introduce a bill halting subsidies and tax advantages for the super-rich They had the best seats in the house. When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president a year ago this week, tech titans Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg were sitting closer than even some of his cabinet picks , living symbols of the US’s new gilded age. “It was so gross,” Rashida Tlaib , a Democratic representative from Michigan, recalled in a phone interview. “It was like a reunion of all the billionaires. Some of them didn’t even like each other, but boy, did they come together for Trump.” Continue reading...