{
  "id": 16744638,
  "title": "The survival of American democracy depends on taxing billionaires",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/the-survival-of-american-democracy-depends-on-taxing-billionaires-16744638",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-27T11:00:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/democracy-tax-billionaires"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "It is essential not just to fund the public goods the nation needs, it is indispensable to restore a sense of fairness Money doesn’t buy happiness, we’re told. Even some economists agree. The Nobel Prize-winning economists, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, once proposed that rising income increased people’s emotional wellbeing only up to a ceiling of about $115,000 in today’s money. They…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}