Jake Johnson: Countering GOP Attacks, Biden Proposes Tax Hike on the Rich to Strengthen Medicare

Originally published at: Jake Johnson: Countering GOP Attacks, Biden Proposes Tax Hike on the Rich to Strengthen Medicare – Progressive Dreamers

Published originally at Common Dreams on March 7, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a plan to extend Medicare’s solvency into the 2050s by raising taxes on high-income Americans and cutting prescription drug costs, a proposal that Biden presented as an alternative to GOP attacks on the…