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Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes

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The Hidden Welfare State

Molly Mitchell Moore: The tax system does more than just raise revenue. She says it is an expression of what we value as a society. It's done kind of through the tax code in a kind of backdoor kind of a way, she says.Moore: A lot of these patterns that we see becoming entrenched in the post-war period had begun in some ways by accident during World War II.

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