Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality

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Nobel prize-winning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning Keynesian economist, has called for the super-rich to be subjected to taxes as high as 70% to help tackle widening inequality.

Stiglitz said that while an increase in the top rate on income would help lead to a more equal society, introducing wealth taxes on the fortunes accumulated by the world’s wealthiest over many generations would have an even bigger impact. as “very reasonable” and said they “would really go a long way to raising revenues that could alleviate some of our country’s problems”.

 

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