Four CEO Pay-Related Taxes in Play on Capitol Hill

Sep 10, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -70% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    32% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    18% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"In other words, the more corporations paid their CEO, the less they owed in taxes."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"While that 2017 legislation mostly cut taxes for the rich and big corporations, one section actually made a small step forward on CEO pay reform."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The public investment proposals on the table in the budget reconciliation negotiations, from universal child care to free college, would dramatically reduce our nation's staggeringly high levels of inequality."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Wyden has introduced a bill to treat carried interest as ordinary income, as has been proposed by the Biden administration, Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, and others."
Positive
24% Conservative
"Wyden has introduced a bill to treat carried interest as ordinary income, as has been proposed by the Biden administration, Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, and others."
Positive
24% Conservative
"Wyden has introduced a bill to treat carried interest as ordinary income, as has been proposed by the Biden administration, Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, and others."
Positive
24% Conservative
"Republican Senator Marco Rubio was the first to float a legislative proposal for taxing buybacks in 2019."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Wyden and fellow Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown will reportedly issue their own plan this week."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Democratic Senators Jack Reed and Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Lloyd Doggett have proposed extending the $1 million deductibility cap to all forms of compensation for all employees in their Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Democratic Senators Jack Reed and Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Lloyd Doggett have proposed extending the $1 million deductibility cap to all forms of compensation for all employees in their Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Democratic Senators Jack Reed and Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Lloyd Doggett have proposed extending the $1 million deductibility cap to all forms of compensation for all employees in their Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"On the campaign trail in 2016, President Donald Trump called for the closure of a loophole that gives wealthy private equity, real estate, and hedge fund managers a huge tax break by allowing them to pay the discounted capital-gains tax rate on so-called carried interest (earnings tied to a percentage of the fund's profits)."
Negative
-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : In other words, the more corporations paid their CEO, the less they owed in taxes.
44% : While that 2017 legislation mostly cut taxes for the rich and big corporations, one section actually made a small step forward on CEO pay reform.
44% : The public investment proposals on the table in the budget reconciliation negotiations, from universal child care to free college, would dramatically reduce our nation's staggeringly high levels of inequality.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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