Mostly Economics Podcast #35: Tax the Worker, Spare the Wealthy with Amy Hanauer

The US tax code is not broken. It is working exactly as the wealthy designed it. Spare the wealthy, tax the worker. Dean Baker sits down with Amy Hanauer, Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, to expose how loopholes like carried interest were deliberately built to protect fortunes and make working people foot the bill. The result is a rigged system that keeps rewarding wealth and punishing work. -- Follow Dean Baker & CEPR https://x.com/DeanBaker13 https://x.com/ceprdchttps://bsky.app/profile/deanbaker13.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/ceprdc Follow Amy Hanauer https://x.com/amyhanauer https://bsky.app/profile/amyhanauer.bsky.social Follow ITEP https://bsky.app/profile/itep.org