Articles
The Fiscal Effect Of Expropriating Billionaire Wealth
A thought experiment finds that vast government spending would overwhelm even a complete confiscation.
September 8, 2026
Recorded on February 15, 2022
Bari Weiss began her career as a mainstream media prodigy, landing coveted positions at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in her early twenties. In 2020, she famously resigned from the Times when conditions there became intolerable for her, famously writing in a public resignation letter that “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.” Now Weiss is the publisher of Common Sense, her wildly popular Substack newsletter, and the host of the Honestly with Bari Weiss podcast. Her ambition is nothing short of becoming a 21st-century one-woman media company, and based on what she reveals in this interview, she is well on her way to achieving that goal.
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Bari Weiss
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A thought experiment finds that vast government spending would overwhelm even a complete confiscation.
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