Gabriel Zucman

citizenship, their parents moved when they were two months old, and then that person never sets foot again in the U.S.

In principle, that person has to pay taxes in the U.S.

until she dies.

Well, that's somewhat extreme.

But what the U.K.

and what all other countries do is the opposite extreme.

Because what we do at the moment is

We let people who have spent all their life in the UK, who have become immensely rich in the UK, we let them go tax-free as soon as they move, as soon as they leave.

We don't have to do that.

We could say, OK, look, you want to go to Dubai, go to Dubai.

But from a tax perspective, you will still be treated as a resident of the UK for 10 years, let's say.

read a bit more and listen a bit more to what's happening in the rest of the world and he would realize very quickly that there is in fact overwhelming support even among academic economists of course in the general population but more importantly for your question among economists for this proposal like for instance in July of 2025

There was an op-ed in Le Monde that was signed by seven Nobel Prize winners.

Seven Nobel Prize winners who wrote, we support this.

It was exactly about this proposal.

And 2% minimum tax on the super rich, 2% of their wealth.

And they supported France doing it on its own.

Don't wait for an international agreement.

Lead by example, do it.

And, you know, they explain the logic, you know, the failure of our tax system today to effectively tax the super rich, why that's the right approach to fixing that problem.