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Consider the wealth tax

It's back — and it's still not clear why

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Matthew Yglesias
Mar 10, 2021
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I’m not really sure why, but Elizabeth Warren rebooted the wealth tax debate at the beginning of the month with Bernie Sanders and others cosponsoring.

During the course of the 2020 primary campaign, she embraced two different versions of wealth tax proposals, and Sanders campaigned on a third, different proposal. The fact that the wealth tax keeps boun…

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