Business groups are fighting Biden's $3.5T budget over taxes, drug negotiations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Obamacare sparked a decade of Republican efforts to overturn it after it was approved without GOP votes.
47% : This would reduce the price of more expensive drugs in America and reduce federal spending by an estimated $456 billion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
46% : "Yes, we are going to raise taxes on large, profitable corporations - many that in a given year don't pay a nickel in federal income tax," Sanders said in a tweet Sept. 7.
43% : Zippy Duvall, the federation's president, urged congressional leaders in a letter Sept. 7 not to "raise taxes on the backs of farmers and ranchers who grow the safe, sustainable food supply we all rely on."
42% : "This survey delivers an urgent warning for lawmakers: if you raise taxes on manufacturers, there will be no avoiding widespread job losses, slower growth and wage stagnation," Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement.
40% : Advocacy groups are drawing battle lines in opposition to parts of the bill aiming to raise taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals, lower prices on prescription drugs and combat climate change.
39% : "At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we can no longer tolerate a rigged tax system that allows the top 1% to avoid $163 billion in taxes that they owe," Sanders said in a tweet Sept. 8. "
37% : Lawmakers used the maneuver to approve Trump's signature tax cut in 2017 and the Affordable Care Act nicknamed Obamacare in 2010.
36% : Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., head of the Budget Committee who aimed for a $6 trillion package rather than $3.5 trillion, said corporations and wealthy individuals avoid paying taxes while the burden falls increasingly on the working class.

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