Gabriel Zucman

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485 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 197. The Billionaire Tax Debate (Gabriel Zucman) · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

The wealth of billionaires has exploded.

It is the most important challenge in the 21st century.

The proposal is for people who have more than 100 million pounds.

You should be paying a minimum amount of tax equal to 2% of your wealth.

If they move, we'll keep taxing them.

Period.

It is this regressivity problem that I'm trying to fix.

So it's a question of fairness?

It's a basic question of equality.

before the law.

And the fact that they might threaten to leave, that shouldn't serve as an excuse.

They don't pay income tax on that income.

No, the holding companies don't pay corporation tax.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for coming to Paris.

For me, what's been important is I've spent about 10 years in California, in Berkeley.

And this has radicalized me a little bit because in the Bay Area of San Francisco, you have extreme wealth, you have the world's top billionaires, and you have extreme poverty, tens of thousands of homeless people.

And year after year, I had the impression that this was getting worse and that the Democratic Party in particular was not able to propose some solutions to that problem.

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