TAX, SLAVERY AND BILLIONAIRES – Meet Rising Star Economist Gabriel Zucman

Meet Gabriel Zucman - the acclaimed activist economist who’s
taking the world by storm on his plans to tax the rich, end tax
dodging and fight inequality. He’s "changing how you think about
wealth, whether you know it or not".  His proposals for a
wealth tax on billionaires in the US have been taken on board by
US Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.


We talk to Gabriel about his ideas and his new book, ‘The Triumph
of Injustice: How the rich dodge taxes and how they can be made
to pay’, which he co-authored with Emmanuel Saez.


Gabriel shares how – fascinatingly – the anti-tax rhetoric of the
American right wing has its roots in slavery and slave ownership.
How the US used to have the most progressive tax system in the
world, including a 93% top rate of income tax.  How
industrial levels of tax dodging by corporates and individuals
can be stopped. And why he is so hopeful that progressive change
can happen and will happen to fight inequality.  


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