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Today, if we've done our jobs correctly, and who knows, we've hopefully suckered you into paying attention to a story about 110 years of American tax policy. Let's find out.
So September 2020, Jesse Isinger, a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica, had gotten this leak of internal documents from an anonymous source, the tax returns of thousands of the wealthiest Americans dating back over 15 years.
In those leaked tax returns, Jesse and the team at ProPublica could see proof of this maneuver, a maneuver that some academics and economists had suspected was now being deployed by the country's wealthiest. What did the documents help you understand that you hadn't understood before?
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