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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/07/2025

Is America’s progressive income tax—enacted by Congress in part to tame Gilded Age excess—even capable of curbing the wealth inequality now eating away at our social and political fabric? The short answer: Hell no. The root of the problem is that our tax code is based on a fiction.

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Even sky-high income tax rates won’t stop the relentless rise of the richest

Tackling America's wealth gap will require more powerful tactics.

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