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    The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
    The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
    The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
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    The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

    Written by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

    Narrated by Steve Menasche

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    America's runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system.

    Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America's tax system, based on new statistics covering all taxes paid at all levels of government. Their conclusion? For the first time in more than a century, billionaires now pay lower tax rates than their secretaries.

    Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, and writing in lively and jargon-free prose, Saez and Zucman dissect the deliberate choices (and sins of indecision) that have brought us to today: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax avoidance industry; and the spiral of tax competition among nations. With clarity and concision, they explain how America turned away from the most progressive tax system in history to embrace policies that only serve to compound the wealth of a few.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateOct 15, 2019
    ISBN9781684577903
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      The data and analysis in this book is uniquely accessible and insightful. It has moved my point of view on the role of taxation in society The authors more effectively advocate for wealth redistribution than the “make everything free” flavor of socialistic democrats” who mostly rant in the realm of rights but seldom coherently articulate in a broad econometric and historical context. Long live clear, rigorous analysis.