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About this book
A powerfully persuasive and thoroughly entertaining guide to the most effective way to un-rig the economy and fix inequality, from America's wealthiest “class traitors”
The vast majority of Americans—71 percent—believe the economy is rigged in favor of the rich. Guess what? They’re right.
How do you rig an economy? You start with the tax code. In Tax the Rich! former BlackRock executive Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization’s founder, take readers on an engaging and enlightening insider’s tour of the nation’s tax code, explaining exactly how “the rich”—and the politicians they control—manipulate the U.S. tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.
Blunt and irreverent, Tax the Rich! unapologetically dismantles the “intellectual” justifications for a tax code that virtually guarantees destabilizing levels of inequality and consequent social unrest. Infographics, charts, cartoons, and lively characters including “the Werkhardts” and “the Slumps” make a complicated subject accessible (and, yes, sometimes even funny) and illuminate the practical reforms that can put America on the road to stability and shared prosperity before it’s too late. Never have the arguments in this book been more timely—or more important.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- A Note from Morris Pearl
- A Note from Erica Payne
- 1. What Exactly Is “Rich”?
- 2. WTF Is the “Economy,” and Why Do the People Who Wrote This Book Keep Calling It the “Political Economy”?
- 3. How to Rig an Economy
- 4. Tax Tricks
- 5. The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich and Other Corporate Tax Machinations
- 6. On Lies and Liars
- 7. Unrigging the Political Economy to Create a More Perfect Union
- 8. Here’s How We Do It
- Dedications
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Authors
- Copyright