Fake letter claims Elizabeth Warren wants 1% crypto wealth tax
This morning, Crypto Twitter widely shared an official-looking document that supposedly detailed a request by Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren to impose a 1% wealth tax on personal crypto holdings exceeding $500,000. Just one problem: The letter was fake. Although Senator Warren is famously antagonistic toward crypto — even spawning a derogatory meme coin making fun of her staunch opposition — she didn’t sign a letter seeking “the imposition of a 1% wealth tax on cryptocurrency holdings exceeding $500,000 for individuals, trusts, and entities.” In fact, nobody signed that letter. The hoaxer revealed the troll in the spelling of Warren’s name , purposefully substituting the character Z for S in her first name. Apparently this recent Warren letter suggesting a 1% tax and mandatory reporting is fake. Check her misspelled name at the bottom. It’s also not on her website. The sad part is that it is beyond believable that she would make these types of policy suggest...