
A Solidarity Tax on Billionaires Could Raise €800 Billion
A referendum on a 1945-style solidarity tax on fortunes above €100 million would give France’s left the clarity it lacks.
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Thomas Piketty is professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital and Ideology and Capital in the Twenty-First Century (both Belknap Press).

A referendum on a 1945-style solidarity tax on fortunes above €100 million would give France’s left the clarity it lacks.

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