
How Trump’s Tariff Regime Fuels Global Oligarchy
Trump’s radical tax vision could dismantle the IRS, reshape global inequality—and fuel a new economic war.
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Gabriel Zucman, professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, is founding director of the European Union Tax Observatory and a 2023 recipient of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal.

Trump’s radical tax vision could dismantle the IRS, reshape global inequality—and fuel a new economic war.

Trump’s “America First” policies upend global order, igniting calls to tax oligarchs and disrupt international trade.

The concentration of wealth is a global issue and it is getting worse.