April 14, 2026
The Oligarchy Virus
How America’s supposedly progressive tax system guarantees a wildly skewed national wealth distribution.
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There’s a virus in our tax system.
A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time, waiting for the appropriate conditions to reveal itself. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew.
An oligarchy virus.
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