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Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)
Jesse Eisinger
So the first income tax was passed in the Civil War. And the way the government had raised money before that and then after that for a long time was through tariffs and levies, you know, fees on tobacco and alcohol largely. And that was a regressive system.
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