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Legislation intended to force the nation s richest Americans to pay taxes on inherited fortunes would instead drive hard-working farmers to sell land that families have owned for generations, ag and business groups say.
Five leading U.S. senators, including former Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, proposed legislation last month that they say would close a loophole that allows wealthy Americans to sidestep paying taxes on massive inheritances. It could potentially impact farmers, whose valuable land would be taxed when passed on to the next generation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent, said it s absurd that many of the country’s wealthiest people never pay a cent of capital gains taxes on millions or even billions they inherit, while working people pay taxes on every check they receive.”
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Why rebuilding Jordan s social contract is crucial to agricultural workersâ rights beyond COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the significant contribution of essential workers worldwide. Among them, agricultural workers in Jordan have toiled in fields and factories throughout the crisis to ensure food supplies continue undisrupted. COVID-19 has exposed the unfair working conditions endured by so many of our frontline workers. The extent of inequality and labour law rights violations in the last year alone have demonstrated greater deterioration of agricultural working conditions in Jordan amid the pandemic.
Three senior BJP leaders including president J.P. Nadda campaigned in West Bengal on Tuesday and raked up religion as a poll plank. Mr. Nadda, who held a road show and addressed a public meeting in Bankura, wondered why Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a lockdown on the day of foundation stone laying of Ram Temple in August 2020 but lifted it on the day of muharram.
Delhi remained the most polluted capital city in the world but India, on the whole, had improved its average annual PM 2.5 (particulate matter) levels higher in 2020 than in 2019, according to a report from IQ Air, a Swiss air quality technology company, specialising in protection against airborne pollutants, and developing air quality monitoring and air cleaning products.