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Episode 116: What Happens When We Make College “Free”?

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The Cost of Nononsense Majors in Colleges and Universities

If you tax the top 1% income, that will raise about $220 billion a year. But this isn't a deal breaker from her perspective,. We can take the wealth tax off the table and say, okay, suppose she funds this with an income tax. That estimate ignores how people will react to this. And I think there are a number of things that are going to happen that aregoing to cause that number to just skyrocket.

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