If you are a billionaire in an affluent suburb somewhere, to a great extent, if you have good accountants and good lawyers, you can pay what you want when you want to, and often hardly anything at all.
Ron Wyden: “If you are a billionaire in an affluent suburb somewhere, to a great extent, if you have good accountants and good…”
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Wyden points out how wealthy individuals exploit the tax system.
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