The Case For A Billionaire's Wealth Tax | Gabriel Zucman

Welcome to the rest of politics leading with me Roy Stewart >> and me Alistister Campbell. Now a lot of our listeners and viewers seem to like it when we have left-wing economists with big ideas on leading. We've had Kate Ray, Janice Farifaris, and Gary Stevenson who ever since has been nagging us to get on our guest today,

Gabrielle Zukman. He's the professor at Barclay in the Paris School of Economics. He's best known for his work on exposing tax havens and also for a proposal for a wealth tax or as he prefers to call it minimum income tax guarantee. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming to Paris.

>> And good. So to begin, we're sitting here uh in a bunch of the echolm superior and you are one of the kind of products of this extraordinary French educational system but also been in Britain the states. So can you locate first how much you think your thoughts about inequality billionaires come from your personal experience your

experience in France the problems that France is facing maybe a little glimpse into French politics where the extreme left and the extreme right seem to be doing better than they were a few years ago >> for me what's been important is I've I've spent about about 10 years in California in Berkeley and This has

radicalized me a little bit because in the Bay Area of San Francisco, you have extreme wealth. You have the the world's top billionaires and you have extreme poverty. Tens of thousands of homeless people. And year after year, I had the impression that this was getting worse and that the Democratic Party in particular was not able to propose some