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Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar: We don’t tax billionaires to fight the national debt. We tax billionaires to fight BILLIONAIRES.
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Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (permalink)
One of the most consequential series of investigative journalism of this decade was the Propublica series that Jesse Eisinger helmed, in which Eisinger and colleagues analyzed a trove of leaked IRS tax returns for the richest people in America:
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files
The Secret IRS Files revealed the fact that many of America’s oligarchs pay no tax at all. Some of them even get subsidies intended for poor families, like Jeff Bezos, whose tax affairs are so scammy