The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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[EU S14 E06] The U.S. Tax System Designed For Economic Injustice
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This week's episode of Economic Update hosted by Professor Richard Wolff, we will be discussing the increasingly more common corporate threats to force remote workers back to working onsite. We then turn to Ukraine war economics, U.S. vs BGI as anti-Chinese economic nationalism, US's escalation of war in the Middle East, and finally a critique of the US tax system's injustices. If you haven't already, please subscribe to our channel, follow us on social media and of course be sure to sign up on our website: www.democracyatwork.info And as always, we thank for your attention, support and solidarity. The d@w Team
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:16.4 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm your host, Richard Wolf. And quickly to get it out of the way, I'm your host Richard Wolf. |
| 0:23.0 | And quickly to get it out of the way, |
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| 1:15.0 | Today's program we're going to be talking about corporations, pressuring workers to come |
| 1:20.2 | back who have been working remote. |
| 1:23.4 | We're going to have some things to say about the economics of the war in Ukraine, |
| 1:28.6 | about the United States struggle with Chinese companies that takes a new twist but continues something left over from the Trump administration. |
| 1:39.0 | The escalation of the the tax system. We're coming up on tax season the next two months until the |
| 1:57.4 | 15th of April is a time when we're all forced to think about it, deal with it, suffer from it, or try to evade it. |
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