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Adam Smith: So it does not go to the rich unless some of us in the middle there are in the rich?

On the recordApril 4, 1995
So it does not go to the rich unless some of us in the middle there are in the rich?
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Discussing wealth distribution during a debate.

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