Gabriel Zucman

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

The law has to be the same.

And the fact that those super rich people might threaten to leave or to hide assets, that shouldn't serve as an excuse for saying, fine, you're free to live in your own parallel society and not contribute like the rest of the population.

That's just not acceptable.

I think it depends a lot on what the debate is going to be about.

So if we talk more about issues like this, how do we fix our inequality problems, our tax problems, then I think the right and the far right has to offer is very weak and it's not popular and they will lose.

Now, if the left is divided and is not kind of talking enough about those questions, then we talk about other things, about immigration, about what have you, and the far right has a chance to win.

Positive impact.

Slightly positive.

Slightly positive impact.

So you would endorse it then?

Yes, I think the lesson... We can study the historical experience of the U.S.

And, of course, it's difficult to know how the U.S.

economy would have evolved

with a different tax policy, so what the counterfactual is.

Okay, so we have to be careful.

But what we can know as a fact is that when the U.S.

had this policy of quasi-confiscatory top marginal income tax rates for really wealthy, very wealthy people, and indeed for income tax, but also for inheritance tax with rates of nearly 80%, what happened?

It didn't kill growth.

In fact, growth was higher back then than it is today.

It had a dramatic effect on inequality.

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