Robert Johnson: Friend of the Rich

By Matthew Yglesias
Matt Stoller reminds us that BET chair Robert Johnson was also involved in lobbying to maintain the hedge fund tax loophole. That on top of the estate tax and Social Security business. Surely, Hillary Clinton can find some better African-American surrogates than this.

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