On the rate of billionaire wealth growth, see www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...
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I'm generally in favor of raising the social security tax cap. But as Ch. 5 of HTTtU explains, the ultrarich don't have much in wages & can readily convert what they do have to something else. Just raising rates probably won't get us a fully fair tax system.
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