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Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)

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PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A rogue IRS contractor leaks the private tax returns of the country’s wealthiest citizens to a reporter. That reporter, ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger, learns that some of our billionaires are paying as little as zero dollars in federal income taxes. The story of how this country came up with an income tax in the first place, and how the wealthiest discovered an opt-out strategy. Support the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Search Engine. I'm PJ Vote. Each week on the show we answer a question we have about the world, no question too big, no question too small. so hard to tax billionaires? The answer may lie in a USB key leaked by a rogue IRS worker

0:16.4

to a journalist. A USB key containing private tax returns for the very wealthiest people in America.

0:23.7

Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Jeff Bezos.

0:27.1

The story of that leak and the question it answered

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