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Monday, March 2, 2026 ■ Today's Top News 'Enough Is Enough': Sanders, Khanna Propose Billionaires Tax to Raise $4.4 Trillion "In a democratic society, we cannot tolerate 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck—struggling to pay for housing, food, and healthcare—while 938 billionaires have become $1.5 trillion richer." By Julia Conley The US economy has reached a breaking point, suggested Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday as he and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced legislation to force billionaires pay their fair share in taxes. “We can no longer tolerate a corrupt tax code that enables billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than the average worker,” said Sanders (I-Vt.) “In a democratic society, we cannot tolerate 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck—struggling to pay for housing, food, and healthcare—while 938 billionaires have become $1.5 trillion richer. We cannot continue a trend in which, over the past 50 years, $79 trillion in weal...