How rich people dodge taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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The Tax Avoidance Risers
Since the 1980s, you've had a surge in the tax avoidance industry. The New Deal era tax system worked well by the very progressive taxes because it was accompanied by an effort on the part of successive administration to reduce tax avoidance to a minimum. There's nothing inherent in globalization or in modern technology that makes it impossible to tax the wealthy today. That's a choice that essentially is ours to make.
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