A debate that rises all over the world | EUROtoday

Who stated: “The deficit is not sustainable (…). And if it has to bleed, it must come from the rich, from the class of billionaires. It cannot come from the middle classes, it’s hard enough to get out of it today. »» Gabriel Zucman? Thomas Piketty? The American economist Joseph Stiglitz? The correct answer is Steve Bannon, former adviser to the American president, Donald Trump, who today remains an influential voice of the Maga movement (Make America Great Again). If there is practically no chance, in the current state of political forces, that Donald Trump decides to tax the billionaires, the existence of this debate within his political movement speaks volumes about the rise in reflection and mobilization, in many countries, to make more taxes pay for large fortunes.

From Brazil to Norway, passing through the United Kingdom and Germany, calls for the taxation of large fortunes are multiplying. And, for a few months, France has been at the heart of controversies with the strongly debated proposal of the economist Gabriel Zucman to set a floor tax of 2 % on heritage above 100 million euros.

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