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Ezra Klein: “Should there be billionaires? You can imagine a structure of…”

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You talk a lot about how they're the source of the problem. What should we do about them? Should billionaires exist? He's the question that goes around Twitter. Should there be billionaires? You can imagine a structure of taxation that just says nobody needs to personally control more than a billion dollars. at the point that you have that the taxation becomes fundamentally redistributive. Right. It just over that you're getting taxed at 95%, you're getting taxed at. And it's complicated. (40:47–40:57)

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Suggests a taxation structure where individuals do not control more than a billion dollars.

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