July 21, 2021

EP. 114 — How The Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax with Jesse Eisinger

Journalist Jesse Eisinger joins Adam to explain how he and his colleagues at ProPublica exposed how little billionaires pay in taxes – often, nothing at all – and the underhanded techniques they use to do it.

Transcript

FACT-114-20210716-Eisinger-RCv01-DYN.wav Speaker 1 [00:00:22] Hello everyone, welcome to Factually. I’m Adam Conover, thank you once again for joining us on the show. You know, I would record this show even if I weren’t doing it for a podcast, because on this show I get to talk to some of the most fascinating experts from around the world. I get to learn all the incredible things that they know that I don’t know. I get to broaden my own horizons and as a bonus, I get to have all you listen too and make a little money because we record some ads. This show is so wonderful to do, and I can’t thank you enough for supporting it. Just to remind you, if you want to support it even more, you can buy books at our custom bookshop at factuallypod.com/books. When you do, you’ll be supporting not just this show, but your local bookstore. Or you could sign up for a Stitcher premium account, that supports us as well. We got some brand new ways to support the show that we

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