Centrist ex-senator now lobbies for tax loophole she called "one of the biggest scams in history"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : At the very least, income tax should be paid on that income when Bezos dies and passes his assets on.
44% : "I'm trying to sound the alarm, both economically and politically, for Democrats that this is not a path to walk," she said, even though polls have shown that the public overwhelmingly supports closing tax loopholes for the wealthy and there has been considerable outcry over leaked IRS data that showed how the rich avoid paying income taxes.
41% : "If you agree with Biden that unearned income going to wealthy people should be taxed at the same rate as earned income, you can't defend a tax break that allows lots of unearned income to escape taxes completely."
41% : "Heitkamp wants to make sure that if that absentee owner dies and passes the land on to an heir who has never set foot in the Midwest, the heir doesn't have to pay taxes.
39% : Amy Hanauer, executive director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, told Salon that the current loophole "unfairly allows billionaires like Jeff Bezos to avoid paying income tax on most of their real income," because it comes from appreciation on his assets, which are now worth $99 billion more than they were 10 years ago.

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