The ultra-wealthy pay as little as 3% in taxes while programs for the poor face the axe

The ultra-wealthy pay as little as 3% in taxes while programs for the poor face the axe

Recently, Elon Musk was crowned the richest man in history after his wealth surpassed $1 trillion. How much is $1,000,000,000,000? How can we imagine such an amount?A former student of mine dealt with this challenge by converting wealth into $1.00 bills and measuring how far they would go. The bills are arranged in a stack on their side, not lengthwise. I extended his exercise into time by asking, “If we spent one dollar per second, and spent th…