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Slate Money | Money Talks: How Our Tax Code Makes the Rich Richer

Slate Money | Money Talks: How Our Tax Code Makes the Rich Richer

Update: 2025-10-28
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In this Money Talks: Emily Peck and Felix Salmon are joined by legal scholar Ray D. Madoff to discuss her new book The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy. Ray lays out how the US tax code favors the wealthy to an unbelievable degree, helping them to essentially opt out of the system altogether. 


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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth.



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Slate Money | Money Talks: How Our Tax Code Makes the Rich Richer

Slate Money | Money Talks: How Our Tax Code Makes the Rich Richer

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