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The racial wealth gap is real. The caste analogy explaining it is not. When the label is wrong, the policy it generates is unfocused, and unfocused policy is expensive in ways that hurt the people it claims to help.
By Zara Mitchell · 3 min read
Sanders and Khanna just proposed a 5% annual wealth tax on America's 938 billionaires, projected to raise $4.4 trillion. The innovation backlash is loud. But when billionaire wealth grew 22% in a single year while 67% of workers live paycheck to paycheck, the real argument isn't about ambition. It's about arithmetic.
By Sadie Park · 3 min read