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Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."

That is shockingly obvious, and really makes me question how our Debt = Inequality mentality got this far.

More with Mathew: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164698399/how-the-affluent-benefit-from-the-poor