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Liberals are constantly accused of being out of touch with things that matter to regular Americans. And some actually are. But there's being out of touch, and then there's being really out of touch 1/ thehill.com/policy/finance…
Put this in the same basket as Sean Hannity saying high taxes are bad because they'll cut into yacht sales 2/ mediamatters.org/video/2019/01/…
Yet it is true that a lot of working-class white people see someone like Hannity as closer to them than someone like, say, Nancy Pelosi, who has actually fought for their health care and wages. Is it just racism? Is it also anti-intellectualism? 3/
I was going to say, inquiring minds want to know. But I suspect that even having an inquiring mind makes you one of Them, and unacceptable to a lot of voters ... 4/
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I'm working on the Saez-Zucman-Warren tax proposal -- which is, by the way, a real proposal, much more so than the (not at all stupid) suggestion by @AOC of a 70% top rate. It's simultaneously radical and serious, and worth analyzing closely 1/ gabriel-zucman.eu/files/saez-zuc…
It's a really big deal. It would raise around 1% of GDP, entirely from the top 0.1% of wealth owners; meanwhile, the top 0.1% of income earners (not quite the same people, but close) gets around 9% of total income, so this is a double-digit rise in their effective tax rate 2/
Taxing wealth is also a new thing, although middle-class families, whose wealth is largely in their houses, pay a lot of property taxes. And the wealthy, who own a lot of corporate equities, used to pay much higher de facto taxes on those assets via the corporate profits tax 3/
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Something I'm seeing in various places is the claim that most billionaires are Democrats. This is a widely held perception, but completely untrue. And there's a reason people get it wrong, explained in a new book of political science 1/ amazon.com/Billionaires-S…
Grr. Expected the cover to show; it's "Billionaires and Stealth Politics," by Paige et al 2/
What they show is that billionaires overwhelmingly give money to conservative causes and support right-wing politicians -- but they don't talk about it. It's only the centrist/liberal minority that's vocal 3/
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Aha. Here's the letter from Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman to Elizabeth Warren laying out a plan for a tax on very high wealth 1/ gabriel-zucman.eu/files/saez-zuc…
It would only affect 75,000 households, but it would raise revenues equal to about 1 percent of GDP. That's a lot of money, and could pay for dramatic improvements to health care and other social programs 2/
Also, the analysis is really clear and all assumptions are both clearly laid out and reasonable. Not a hint of voodoo. Worth noting too that Saez and Zucman are at the top of their field -- fit matches for @ewarren 3/
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