Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) claimed that non-billionaires won’t pay “a penny more” under her Medicare for All plan, despite analysis of the plan suggesting otherwise.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) debuted a proposal to directly tax the wealth of America's richest families at an even higher rate than primary rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.). 
A financial transaction tax, though popular with 2020 Democrats, would raise little revenue and substantially shrink the U.S. economy, a recently released report concludes. 
The Washington Post fact-checker gave Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris Three Pinocchios Tuesday for dubiously claiming that her tax proposal would pay for itself. 
Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren's wide-ranging progressive platform is dependent in part on an "ultra-millionaire" wealth tax on the richest people in the United States, but questions about its efficacy and constitutionality make it a risky bet for her. 
California Democrats have proposed a wide array of new taxes in the new legislative session that have some party members in the state worried about the potential political fallout. 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) will propose a "wealth tax" on people with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on the issue. 
Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has yet to take the speaker's gavel of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democrats are already laboring to make it easier to dismantle the achievements of the Trump presidency. 