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

2438.408 - 2460.804 PJ Vogt

So just to make sure I understand, Andrew Mellon was working for the government. And one way you could understand what he was doing was intentionally making the tax code more complicated as a way of giving the wealthy people who presumably he knew and had dinner parties with and was, in fact, one of them, some outs. Like, it's like, you don't like school. Here's a big stack of excuses.