No one should be a billionaire

What Democratic presidential candidates should have said in response to the question

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"Does anyone deserve to have a billion dollars?"

That's one of the questions The New York Times recently put to the avalanche of candidates coming for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination in 2020.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.