The Bush administration sharply reduced taxes on investment gains, stock dividends and eliminated the estate tax.
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Narrator The financial industry also exerts its influence in a more subtle way, one that most Americans don't know about: It has corrupted the study of economics itself.
Narrator Inequality of wealth in the United States is now higher than in any other developed country.
Narrator Most of the benefits of these tax cuts went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
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