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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But I'm really worried about the amount of tax that I would have to pay if I become a billionaire or a centimillionaire.
It's just such an unlikely event.
You know, we're talking about a 0.00001% chance that you are going to have such success that nobody age 20, 25, you know, thinks about this.
It's just not relevant.
And we're talking also about, in the case of the California billionaire tax, a 5% one-off tax on their wealth.
which the wealth of billionaires has been multiplied by a factor of 30 over the last 30 years.
So we're talking about really low tax rates for people who are extremely wealthy.
It's not going to discourage anyone from innovating, from creating a startup.
You know, what really matters is to encourage, to foster innovation.
is not to guarantee a 0% tax rate on billionaires, but it's to invest in education, in higher education, in public infrastructure, in healthcare, in all these core engines of economic growth.
This is how the UK and France and the US have become prosperous countries, is because they've chosen over the course of the 20th century to make those massive,
public investments, which have lifted productivity by a factor of 10.
And the mobility point?
And so on mobility, it's an issue that needs to be taken seriously.
But what's really important to understand is that
Tax competition is not a law of nature, like gravity.
Sometimes people think that you tax billionaires in the UK and they move to Dubai.
And it's like a law of nature.
It's not like that.
It's a policy choice.
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