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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/
Has to be said: hard to conceive of a proposal this smart and solid coming from anyone in the GOP. The usual suspects will try to poke holes in it, but will surely end up sinking themselves 4/
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