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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

A Bezos-Biden squabble: Can corporate taxes tame inflation?

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Jeff Bezos this weekend became the latest centibillionaire to launch a political fight on Twitter by denouncing a tweet from President Joe Biden about corporate taxes as “disinformation” and "misdirection."

The White House quickly retorted Monday that Bezos “opposes an economic agenda for the middle class.” And then Bezos fired back, arguing that the Biden administration would have made inflation worse if its $3.5 trillion economic and social spending bill, known as “Build Back Better,” had made it into law.

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