This Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Zelienople, Pa., shows multiple forms printed from the Internal Revenue Service web page that are used for 2018 U.S. federal tax returns.

How the Wealthiest Americans Play the Tax Game

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 14, 2021

ProPublica received a trove of Internal Revenue Service data showing that the wealthiest Americans "sidestep" income taxes, legally. Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor at ProPublica and the author of the The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives (Simon & Schuster, 2017), talks about his reporting, and what it says about the inequality baked into the U.S. tax system.

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