The $100 Million Lie: How Class-War Politics Ignore Basic Economics

The $100 Million Lie: How Class-War Politics Ignore Basic Economics

Few ideas are repeated more confidently—and examined less honestly—than the claim that “billionaires are the cause of society’s problems.” From homelessness to hunger, student debt to climate change, the villains are always the same. The prescription, championed loudly by politicians like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani, is equally predictable: tax the rich more […] The post The $100 Million Lie: How Class-War Politi…