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Office hours: Elon Musk and the billionaire tax

Even Kyrsten Sinema is open to taxing billionaires

Robert Reich
Oct 27, 2021
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Elon Musk made $36 billion on Monday. It would take a typical American worker more than 800,000 years to earn that. But Musk now warns that a tax on billionaires -- such as Democrats are now considering (and even Kyrsten Sinema seems open to) -– would eventually lead to higher taxes on everyone else. The truth is the opposite: if billionai…

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