Neera Tanden

You know, there's just a whole range of ways

The tax code, particularly over the last 30 years, has benefited super wealthy Americans and benefited capital over labor.

People are investing instead of people who are like working paycheck to paycheck.

And from my perspective, I think we should start.

I mean, like, you know, I think we should have a rich debate about a wealth tax.

Sure.

But it's complicated.

It's really hard to do.

It's people can still hide assets and income.

And so I think we could just start off making the tax code a lot fairer by unrigging it in many ways that it's been rigged over 30, at least particularly the last 30 years.

I would ensure that we built mixed income housing in the suburbs and wealthier parts of America.

And I'll say why I think that, you know, essentially what we've learned about poverty in America is that people who have access to like wealthier places, poor people who have access to wealthier places, their upward mobility goes up like this.

Rod Shetty has done a lot of work in this space.

And to be candid, this actually is a bit the story of my life.

My parents got divorced when I was really young.

My father left just as a kind of accident of policy.

Massachusetts had passed this encouragement of low-income housing in suburban areas.

My mom was able to move into an apartment.

We had really good schools.

If she didn't have that apartment in a middle-class town, I could have grown up in a place where no one went to a college.