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Caroline Baum: Bernie is wrong: It’s better to make the poor richer than to make the rich poorer


Redistributing wealth doesn’t help the economy get bigger. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont is forever railing against “millionaires and billionaires.” “I don’t think that billionaires should exist,” Sanders said when he unveiled his wealth-tax proposal in September. Just think of all those n’er-do-well rich folks

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Posted: March 10, 2020 Tuesday 07:47 AM