2021-07-02 15:27:53

How the Morbidly Wealthy are Tanking Democracy

Chuck Collins joins Thom Hartmann to talk about how to stop the morbidly rich from tanking democracy? There's a new report out about how wealth hoarding is endangering US democracy. How high wealth people hide their millions so the IRS cannot find income they make. The IRS capacity to follow the rich due to budget cuts able to enforce the law.

Chuck Collins reveals how the rich avoid taxes, leaving the rest of us to pay the bills. Chuck Collins is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ Program on Inequality and the Common Good and the Co-Editor of Inequality.org / Author of the new book, The Wealth Hoarders.

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