Bloomberg News Article RatingJapan Delays Possible Tax Hike Period for Defense: Documents
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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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| "Japan has set 6.8 trillion yen ($48.8 billion) for defense spending in this fiscal year, jumping from last year's 5.4 trillion yen." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Japan's government plans to consider raising taxes to help fund a jump in defense spending a year later than previously stated, according to the latest draft of this year's economic and fiscal policy plans seen by Bloomberg on Tuesday." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Earlier Tuesday, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki told reporters Japan will flexibly decide when to begin raising taxes to cover the increase in defense spending, in comments that could take on extra weight if the premier calls an early election." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "He's at it again, and already has a few cosponsors, including the new Republican Senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Prior to the Durbin amendment, there were 15 card networks." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Specifically, Durbin and Vance want to impose price controls and routing requirements that essentially force companies to offer comparable services provided by their competitors." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Specifically, Durbin and Vance want to impose price controls and routing requirements that essentially force companies to offer comparable services provided by their competitors." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I follow the evolution and devolution of monetary and financial policySenator Dick Durbin (D-IL) deserves credit for persistence." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The fact that the 2010 Durbin amendment led to the virtual disappearance of debit card rewards programs and no-fee checking accounts, without delivering the lower retail prices supporters touted, hasn't deterred him." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But Durbin and his cosponsors don't want to go that route." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Vance isn't the first Republican to favor price controls in the card markets, and all the previous arguments against Durbin's anti-consumer efforts still apply." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Vance isn't the first Republican to favor price controls in the card markets, and all the previous arguments against Durbin's anti-consumer efforts still apply." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
54% : Japan has set 6.8 trillion yen ($48.8 billion) for defense spending in this fiscal year, jumping from last year's 5.4 trillion yen.42% : Japan's government plans to consider raising taxes to help fund a jump in defense spending a year later than previously stated, according to the latest draft of this year's economic and fiscal policy plans seen by Bloomberg on Tuesday.
37% : Earlier Tuesday, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki told reporters Japan will flexibly decide when to begin raising taxes to cover the increase in defense spending, in comments that could take on extra weight if the premier calls an early election.
*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.