welcome. we continue our conversation with one of the world s most influential economists sited by his colleagues in the field. he s a nobel laureate, and he s mad as hell, infuriated by america s growing inequality as those at the top buy the politicians who write the rules that rig the system. he s especially angry at how the tax code has been manipulated and abused to place the burden on the earners of ordinary income, instead of on the rich and powerful most able to pay. but joseph stiglitz says there are solutions. here s what he told us in our last episode: we have a tax system that reflects not the interest of the middle. we have a tax system that reflects the interest of the one percent. and i want to do is create a tax system that has incentives to create jobs. and if you tell a corporation, look it, if you don t create jobs, you re taking out of our system, you re not putting back, you re going to pay a high tax. but if you put back into our system by investing, t
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