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Speaker 1: that's exactly what we have today. Most read story matters

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Speaker 1: you've been calling out today Biden eyes first major tach

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Speaker 1: hikes since and next economic plan. We have one of

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Speaker 1: the co authors of that story with us, Lara Davison,

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Speaker 1: congressional reporter for Bloomberg News, joining us on the phone

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Speaker 1: from Washington, d C. Laura, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us here. Give us a sense of what the strategy

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Speaker 1: is for the Biden administration here with their tax policy.

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Speaker 1: Are they simply looking to roll back some of President

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Speaker 1: Trump's tax changes or there something new fundamentally here? Yes,

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Speaker 1: and basically they are looking at rolling back the corporate

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Speaker 1: tax cut, raising that rate to raising the top individual

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Speaker 1: rate for for wealthy taxpayers. But kind of looking to

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more so. Kind of the big notable

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Speaker 1: thing here that will be a huge that would be

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Speaker 1: a huge change is this capital gains tax increase for

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Speaker 1: people making more than a million dollars. They would raise

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Speaker 1: huge deal for lots of investors. They're also looking at

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Speaker 1: a whole host of other things, the state tax changes,

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Speaker 1: how offshore corporations are taxed. Uh. You know that this

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Speaker 1: this whole infrastructure plan could cost somewhere between two to

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Speaker 1: four trillion dollars uh, and they're looking to offset a

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Speaker 1: significant chunk of that with some tax increases. Now, it's

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Speaker 1: not going to be easy, right, I mean, obviously Americans

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Speaker 1: that's why it hasn't happened. A major tax increase hasn't

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Speaker 1: a from a legislative process and also politically. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know we've heard time and time again, administration to

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Speaker 1: administration that all we really have to do is close

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Speaker 1: you have to read about big corporations and wealthy individuals

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Speaker 1: there have you thought about is there a specific portion

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Speaker 1: some way, you know, intrinsically fair. I don't know about

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Speaker 1: something that is fair er. Matt, do you use cash

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Speaker 1: behaviors definitely changed. But let's get a look you'll see

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the world of payments. We can

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Speaker 1: do that today with Jeff Sloan. He's the CEO of

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Speaker 1: Global Payments. Global Payments is a publicly traded company n

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Speaker 1: by the pandemic, and I guess the changing concerned behavior. Well,

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Speaker 1: So I would say in short that COVID nineteen really

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Speaker 1: e commerce an omni channel sales, which last year grew

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Speaker 1: Is it still expensive for business owners or or you know,

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Speaker 1: So that kind of trend actually benefits us, by the way, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: You know, here in Europe people have been paying each

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