Biden’s $50,000-per-year journalist
tax credit estimated to cost taxpayers $1.6B
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/5/2021 9:07:06 PM
The lucrative $50,000-per-year journalist tax break that Democrats have tucked within President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar social welfare bill is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $1.6 billion over the next decade. A new analysis of the legislation by the Joint Committee on Taxation, a special congressional panel made up of 10 senior lawmakers from both chambers of Congress, found that taxpayers would be on the hook for more than $1.6 billion if the tax credit becomes law. The credit would allow “local news” outlets to receive a quarterly tax credit, “equal to 50%” of a journalist’s wages up to a cap of $12,500-per-quarter.
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The federal government takes money from the people it hates and gives it to propagandists who in turn convince the gullible 90% that the nation deserves to be destroyed, and we call it tax policy. Years ago we laughed at Pravda; who's laughing now that the Russians freed themselves from the communist yoke now worn by the USA?