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Intergenerational Wealth Transfer, you say? More like creating an American Oligarchy.

Intergenerational Wealth Transfer, you say? More like creating an American Oligarchy.

It's time to talk about Trust Reform.

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Brad Smith
Feb 14, 2022
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Intergenerational Wealth Transfer, you say? More like creating an American Oligarchy.
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When I see a headline like this: “Tax-Free Inheritances Fuel America’s New $73 Trillion Gilded Age”, it sort of gets my attention.

Because we talk a lot about wealth inequality in this country, and if you’ve read Piketty or Girihandas or Andrew Yang or anything by Robert Reich, you know that barbell’ing wealth in this country has officially gone plaid.

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