{"id":67773,"date":"2026-03-02T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/bernie-sanders-and-ro-khanna-propose-bill-to-impose-wealth-tax-on-billionaires\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:16:41","slug":"bernie-sanders-and-ro-khanna-propose-bill-to-impose-wealth-tax-on-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/bernie-sanders-and-ro-khanna-propose-bill-to-impose-wealth-tax-on-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna propose bill to impose wealth tax on billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make billionaires pay their fair share act would apply to those with a net worth of $1bn or more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senator Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, a representative, on Monday introduced legislation that would impose a 5% annual wealth tax on America\u2019s billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, titled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/press-releases\/news-sanders-and-khanna-introduce-legislation-to-tax-billionaire-wealth-and-invest-in-working-families\/\">make billionaires pay their fair share act<\/a>, would apply to individuals in the US with a net worth of $1bn or more, of which Sanders\u2019s office estimates there are 938 people who meet that threshold.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/bernie-sanders-ro-khanna-billionaires-wealth-tax-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make billionaires pay their fair share act would apply to those with a net worth of $1bn or more Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Senator Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, a representative, on Monday introduced legislation that would impose a 5% annual wealth tax on &#8230; <a title=\"Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna propose bill to impose wealth tax on billionaires\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/bernie-sanders-and-ro-khanna-propose-bill-to-impose-wealth-tax-on-billionaires\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna propose bill to impose wealth tax on billionaires\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}