Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)

1610.626 - 1639.795 Jesse Eisinger

So what happens over the next decade after the Supreme Court has rejected the income tax is there are huge debates about how they could possibly bring this back and resuscitate it. And my hero of this story is this guy Cordell Hull, who's a young Tennessee congressman. And he's the kind of single-minded, obsessive about the income tax. He's a Democrat from the Hill Country in Tennessee.