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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds,

Vox.com's policy podcast on the Panephli network.

Woo! I'm Matthew Iglesias, with me as usual,

I'm my colleague Sarah Cliff, and Ezra Klein. Hey guys.

So I wanted to talk this week.

We're going to change things up a little and start

with the research paper of the week.

Instead, I wanted to talk about a paper

that I'm going to talk about.

I'm going to talk about the paper

that I'm going to talk about.

I wanted to talk about a paper that William Gayle, Melissa

Kerney, and Peter Orizag did for Brookings Institution.

And it makes this sort of striking claim.

They say that taxing rich people, even really heavily,

won't substantially change income inequality.

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