Sources: American Allegories #3; “The Oxymoronic Paradox of Taxes”

The sources list for the third episode the American Allegories series; “The Oxymoronic Paradox of Taxes”.


Piketty, Thomas. “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”.

London School of Economics; Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics Morishima lectu re. “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”.

Harvard Business Review. “Piketty’s “Capital,” in a Lot Less than 696 Pages”.

Tax Policy Center. “Historical Highest Marginal Income Tax Rates”.

Investing Answers. “Marginal Tax Rate [and examples]”.

Trading Economics. “United States GDP Growth Rate”.

Investing Answers. “Marginal tax rate” [definition].

Investopedia. “Alternative Minimum Tax” [definition]”.

Investing Answers. “Effective Tax Rate [and examples]”.

The Motley Fool. “Effective Tax Rate vs. Marginal Tax Bracket: What You Need to Know”.

NerdWallet. “2018-2019 Federal Income Tax Brackets and New Tax Rates”.

Quartz. “How the super-wealthy avoid taxes by parking money offshore legally”.

Vox. “Panama Papers: Why tax havens matter, in one chart”.

New York Times. “After a Tax Crackdown, Apple Found a New Shelter for its Profits”.

The Balance. “US Corporate Income Tax Rate, Its History and the Effective Rate”.

Investopedia. “Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich”.

Silicon Valley Business Journal. “Google shifted $23B in overseas cash to Bermuda tax haven in 2017, report says”.

*** Supplemental *** Rutger Bregman. “Utopia for Realists”.


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YouTube. CBS News.
“Historian says billionaires should stop talking philanthropy, start talking taxes”.

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