Ray D. Madoff

Ray D. Madoff is a professor at Boston College Law School and the author of The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.

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  1. How to Tax Billionaires

    Step one: Abolish the estate tax. No, really.

    Ray D. Madoff
    A calculator in front of a blue background with the faces of Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos on it’s screen
    Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Sources: Aaron Schwartz / Sipa / Bloomberg / Getty; Michel Euler / AP; Taylor Hill / Getty.