A glance at America’s economic landscape in 2025 shows one constant headline: billionaires’ riches dwarf the incomes of nearly everyone else. The 902 billionaires in the U.S. alone now control $16.1 trillion, an amount greater than the GDP of every other country, except China, per fortune report. Critics argue that this concentration of wealth is amplified by a tax system allowing some of the richest people on Earth to pay less, as a percentage, than teachers and nurses.
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