
Thomas Piketty Talks Wealth Taxes
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Revenue Estimates, Evasion Claims, and Enforcement
Debate over how much a 2% tax would raise; Piketty rebuts extreme evasion assumptions, outlines residency-based taxation, enforcement tools (asset freezes, travel restrictions), and critiques elite philanthropy as insufficient for voluntary reform.
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