(Radio Iowa) – Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is spending two days in Iowa, campaigning with Zach Wahls — one of two Democrats campaigning for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat. During a Sunday afternoon rally in Des Moines, Warren and Wahls talked about new taxes on wealthy Americans. “I…want to stand beside Zach as we wade into the fight to say it is about time that billionaires and billionaire corporations pay their fair share,” Warren said, to cheers.
Warren has proposed a two percent tax on households with an annual income of over 50 million dollars, plus an additional one percent tax on billionaires. Wahls, who backed Warren in 2020 when she ran for president, has proposed a five percent annual tax on billionaires. “Those same billionaires are now trying to buy this election,” Wahls said. “And Chuck Schumer is all too happy to help.”
Wahls is a critic of Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader who he accuses of preferring his opponent, Josh Turek, and of VoteVets, a political action committee that’s running ads to boost Turek’s candidacy. “So Chuck…let us tell you what the people of Iowa need. And if you want Chuck to hear that you’re ready for a Democratic Party that fights, let’s make some noise,” Wahls said, holding the microphone toward the crowd as it applauded and cheered.
During the hour-long event, Warren and Walz drew cheers for vowing to go after private equity firms that are buying houses and mobile home parks, hospitals and nursing homes and farmland. Wahls says the country faces an economic crisis that is directly connected to corruption in Washington and the power of monopolies. “With that wealth tax we can pay for universal health care, we can pay for affordable child care, we can protect Social Security for future generations and we can give every Iowa family a middle class tax cut,” Wahls said, to cheers.
The June 2nd Primary is 22 days away.
