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Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20211222 00:55:00

Back better saying it would have helped miners, coal miners. can you give us insight into that? yes. so the biggest issue for coal miners and for the mine workers of america is the funding of an excise tax. it is going to get real wonky here for a minute. so there is an excise tax that funds the black lung disability trust fund which provides benefits out to coal miners with black lung, which is a very severe respiratory disease. now, this tax that funds this fund is set to expire at the end of the year, and tucked into the build back better act was a four-year extension of this tax rate. so without this extension, the tax rate is going to be cut in half and the black lung disability trust fund, which is already facing insolvency, is probably going to sink deeper into debt, which will then in ....

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