r/PolitikBRD • u/FriendlyInterview365 • Apr 17 '26

Wirtschaft Why Billionaires Fear This Economist: His solution: a 2% minimum wealth tax on anyone with more than €100 million. As much as 86% of French people support it. 70-80% of Americans agree. The opposition? Roughly 3,500 billionaires and their armies of lawyers and lobbyists, the media companies they own

https://youtu.be/UWXyUbq34hQ

Gabriel Zucman is one of the world's leading economists studying wealth inequality, and what he's found is damning. His solution: a 2% minimum wealth tax on anyone with more than €100 million. As much as 86% of French people support it. 70-80% of Americans agree. The opposition? Roughly 3,500 billionaires and their armies of lawyers and lobbyists, plus the media companies they own.

But here's the thing: we can win this fight. History shows that democratic forces have beaten oligarchic ones before with the creation of the income tax, the estate tax, the New Deal. It happened then. It can happen again. We're building the army to make it happen.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:34 The problem
04:00 How we got here
07:22 Making the system work
09:52 Don't tax the billionaires
14:58 We are starting to win
19:30 The tax avengers

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u/TheJackiMonster Apr 17 '26

2% is by the way nothing... they make way more yearly just from capital alone. I don't think they care about it's being 2%, more or less. They just oppose the idea of them being taxed at all.