Warren: Billionaires who 'have enough money to shoot themselves into space' will pay for reconciliation bill
By Mychael Schnell - 10/13/21 06:57 PM EDT Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday said billionaires who “have enough money to shoot themselves into space” will pay for the Democrats’ multi-trillion dollar reconciliation bill that is still being negotiated in Congress.
Warren, when asked during an interview on “The View” where the money will come from to pay for the $3.5 trillion package, pointed to billionaires and corporations, specifically mentioning Amazon after its founder Jeff Bezos took a trip to the edge of space this summer.
“The money is going to come from the billionaires who don't pay their taxes and therefore have enough money to shoot themselves into space,” Warren said.
“It's going to come from giant corporations like Amazon who turn around and say their shareholders and the public we made $10 billion in profits last year, and you know how much we paid in taxes, zero,” Warren continued.
She added that Congress is “going to cut that out, that's what's at stake here.”
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