Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in which we

discuss the past, present, and future of tackling the uselessness of extreme

wealth by exposing and closing tax avoidance loopholes

and pushing for a culture change to embrace the need for a more equal society.

Sources today include the Hartman Report, Americans for Tax Fairness,

Pullback Navarro Media, Gary's Economics, and Robert Reich with additional members only

clips from the majority report and pull back. What happens when you tax billionaires at 90%? You know, secession, the TV show is over,

but the spoiled, entitled billionaire man children still very much with us running social media companies owning

newspapers and television networks funding politicians and

judges who then keep their taxes low and the regulations minimal.

America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of 3.1%.

Are you paying 3.1%?

I'm willing to bet it's not the case.

Plus you happen to be a billionaire or worth five, six, seven hundred million dollars.

What has that brought us that has made America the most unequal society in the developed world.

Nobody's even close.

And the last time we had such severe poverty, we have a homelessness epidemic here in America

it's not just people are poor people are literally sleeping on streets we

not only have massive poverty in the United States. We also have insane wealth.

Three men in the United States own more wealth in the bottom half of America.

Of all Americans, of them, three men on more wealth than all of them.

We read about roving gangs doing smash and grabs in Nordstrom and Home Depot.

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