Gabriel Zucman
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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 197. The Billionaire Tax Debate (Gabriel Zucman) · 12 Jul 2026
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It is, in my view, probably the most important
problem or challenge that we're going to face in the 21st century.
But most people in the vast majority actually want to tax billionaires.
Polling that's been done everywhere in the world shows tremendous support.
In France, it's like 86% of the population that favors the 2% minimum.
Yes, but also because there's no party on the other side of the spectrum that's actually proposing to enact those things, or very few parties.
So, you know, that's the problem we have.
It's not either or.
You're trapped just like people are trapped in the U.S.
because the U.S.
has citizens.
had this citizenship-based taxation where you cannot avoid... And they are worse.
These are not the models.
I think what's interesting in the case of the US is that there's been enormous change in US tax policy over the course of the 20th century.
And you can look at how this has correlated with growth and innovation and productivity in the US.
So remember that for half of the 20th century, between the 1930s and the late 1970s, the top marginal income tax rate in the US
on average was 78%.
There was a long period of time during World War II, after World War II, when it was 90, more than 90%.
There's a famous speech by Franklin Roosevelt in Congress in 1942, where he says, look, I think that no American should have an income after paying taxes of more than $25,000 of the time.
equivalent to $2 million today.
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