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| Subject: Theft Pimps: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman are students of Thomas Piketty Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:22 pm | |
| Two Frenchmen want to make American taxes great again. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman are students of Thomas Piketty, whose tome on inequality sold two million copies. Now the pair, both economics professors at the University of California, Berkeley have produced their own much shorter book: “The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay”. It’s a combination of Piketty-style number crunching with some helpful cultural analysis, plus a bit of political advocacy.
The politics is relevant because the authors have advised Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Her tax plan looks a lot like theirs. The book is more than a campaign screed, however. Most of it consists of a persuasive attack on an easy target: the small amount of tax paid by both very rich Americans and very large multinational companies.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-breakingviews/breakingviews-review-making-american-taxes-great-again-idUSKBN1WQ25N
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