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Episode 39 - Updates to Limits to Growth

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Did Jeff Bezos Pay His Taxes Last Year?

ProPublica came across thousands of tax documents from the nation's wealthiest over the last 15 years, and they won't say how they got them to protect their source. They put together these profiles of how much taxes the wealthiest were talking like the001% of the US paid in taxes. And then they compared that to what the average Americans pay in taxes. It would take 14.3 million ordinary American wage earners put together to equal that same amount of wealth. The personal federal tax bill for the top 25 in 2018 was $1.9 billion. For those same 14.3m wage earners, it was $143 billion. So the average Americans are paying around 100 times more for the

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