Ray D. Madoff is a professor at Boston College Law School and the cofounder and director of the Boston College Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good. She is the author of Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead and lead author of The Practical Guide to Estate Planning. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books, among other outlets.
Timestamps
0:00 Ray Madoff Introduction
2:28 Why has the tax code for the ultra-rich not changed?
4:37 What would Thomas Jefferson say about the tax code today?
6:19 What is dead hand control and has kept people rich?
7:35 How the richest Americans don’t pay taxes?
11:53 Express VPN
14:48 Elon Musk and paying taxes
15:55 The way policies shifted after Citizens United
19:04 What would the founding fathers recommend we do to address the situation?
21:02 What elements of the tax code alarmed Professor Madoff the most?
24:16 Do Americans begrudge wealth?
26:30 Reforming the tax system
29:02 What can average citizens do to make the system fairer?
31:38 Five Words
Credit to : Anthony Scaramucci