NYT's 'Ezra Klein Show' promotes mandatory wealth redistribution with socialist professor
Florida Republican torches Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's remarks about capitalism and sheds light on the matter on 'Hannity.'published a new episode of"The Ezra Klein Show" Tuesday which featured a socialist academic arguing for"universal inheritance, worker ownership and other policies to close the wealth gap."
During the interview, Pikitty admitted that one of the most striking things he found was that"there’s been a long-run movement toward more equality, both of income and wealth."equality of wealth"If you look at the distribution of wealth today in the United States or in Europe, what’s really striking is that the bottom 50 percent of the population basically owns nothing at all," Piketty said.
"So just to clarify that, so you’re saying that every year the amount of money that is passed on an inheritance in, say, the U.S., is so large that if you divided it by the denominator of all the people, I guess, who would turn 25 that year in the U.S., you would get — it’s like $250,000, $300,000 per person?" asked Klein.
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