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The Billionaire Tax Debate

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Avery Chen classifies four real proposals as wealth taxes or income taxes, then walks the buy-borrow-die loophole from an appreciating stock all the way to an heir's stepped-up basis. Warren's 2 percent and 6 percent brackets get applied to a real billionaire before a Senate memo.

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