(Some) Billionaires Want to Pay More Taxes

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You know things are bad when even billionaires raise this topic. They may be doing it for political gain only, but the problems are real, and the fact that they're using this shows - people are willioin to react to this kind of messaging.

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An excerpt from the "Economic Update", a weekly program hosted by Richard Wolff. Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/user/democracyatwrk

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9gq0xAYdho

Further reading:
http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/millionaires-raise-taxes/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-york-richest-state-raise-taxes-article-1.3003889

Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City.

In 1988 he co-founded the journal Rethinking Marxism. In 2010, Wolff published Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It, also released as a DVD. He released three new books in 2012: Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, with David Barsamian (San Francisco: City Lights Books), Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press), and Democracy at Work (Chicago: Haymarket Books).

Outro music:
Erik Satie - Pièces froides (1897) - Danses de travers II

Editor's note:
The graphics are for the 2016 letter. It's very similar to the 2017 letter, but I still messed up. Sorry.