Gabriel Zucman

Seven Nobel Prize winners, you know, Joe Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Esther Duflo, Darren Acemoglu, you know, many others.

Then in the debate in France,

you had many economists who came out strongly in support.

For instance, the former chief economist of the IMF.

Olivier Blanchard, you know, we wrote an op-ed together in Le Monde saying, and he said, that's the right proposal.

Do it.

You know, he's not a left-wing person.

He's not a communist.

And so, you know, broadly speaking, you have about 80%, 90% of the population which is in favor.

And you have broadly the same proportion among economists.

You know, you always have 10, 20% of the population who thinks that, you know,

It's normal for some people to be above the law that the super rich they're so kind of Smart and and and so good that it's a kind of natural Aristocracy and that we have to accept that they pay less than the rest of us and in any case There's nothing we can do about fixing that and that the law should be more lenient on the under powerful and harsher on the poor and immigrants and

It's always a small fraction of the population most of the population everywhere wants equality before the law and that's true for people just like for economists and Fundamentally this taxation of the wealth of the extremely wealthy.

It's about that.

It's about this fundamental principle that you cannot have

You cannot live in your own separate society.

You have to abide by our fundamental principle of equality before the law.

You have to pay at least as much as nurses and school teachers.

And it's just not acceptable that you should be able to pay zero.

Yeah, I mean, now's the time.