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Demeter

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13. Taxing the Rich Does Not Hurt Jobs

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 10:15 PM

Mar 2012

This Real News Network interview with professor of economics Jeffrey Thompson debunks the notion that increasing taxes on the well off is a negative for employment.

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