A group of tech giants, echoing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the CEO of Lyft, is pushing for something companies almost never ask for: higher taxes.
The Chamber of Progress—a group of Silicon Valley companies that launched in March to counter some of the anti-tech undercurrents on Capitol Hill by courting Democrats—is advocating for a higher corporate tax rate, which President Joe Biden recently proposed hiking to 28% from 21%.
This isn’t what corporate trade groups are expected to do. But the Chamber, whose “corporate partners” are Amazon, Google, Uber, Lyft, Facebook, Twitter, and a handful of ...