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Episode 217: Who Is Paying Their Fair Share?

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The Rich Must Pay Their Fair Share

In 1913, a constitutional amendment allowed the federal government to collect income tax. It took less than 10 years before that tax was quadrupled and extended all the way down to the poor. "Before you know it, you and I and everybody who's listening is going to be defined as the rich," he says.

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