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Froma Harrop: Taxes are for raising revenues, not punishing rich people

It’s true that America’s billionaires added $1 trillion to their pile during President Donald Trump’s four years. But though the 2017 tax cuts mostly benefited the richest investors, a growing concentration of wealth has been going on for decades. So, raise taxes on these guys because they have the money and not because they are supposedly greedy or otherwise in need of moral teachings.

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