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<p>In this Money Talks: <a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/epeck"><u>Emily Peck</u></a> and Felix Salmon are joined by legal scholar <a href="https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/law/academics-faculty/faculty-directory/ray-madoff.html"><u>Ray D. Madoff </u></a>to discuss her new book <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo256019296.html"><em>The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy</em></a><em>. </em>Ray lays out how the US tax code favors the wealthy to an unbelievable degree, helping them to essentially opt out of the system altogether. </p><p>Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slate-money/id876523888"> <u>Apple Podcasts</u></a> and<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2AgxNbNcUOckZSww9mk8mX"> <u>Spotify</u></a>. Or, visit<a href="https:/...