Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts
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Taxes and Transfers in the National Tax System
Ogtn: You can't decompose macra economic growth across social groups. The top one % average tax rates is a bit higher than the average macreconmic tax rate in the wesst, whichi ty%. But the difference is rerly small. That is now, altogether, the tax system in the ests is barely progressive. Wit its close to a flat tax, where everybody must pay 30% of their income.
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