Taxing the Super Rich: Economic and Political Considerations

For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-time-history-us-billionaires-paid-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/

“The average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households, a new book-length study found.”

Wealth taxes have moved up the political agenda

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/10/03/wealth-taxes-have-moved-up-the-political-agenda

The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/opinion/sunday/wealth-income-tax-rate.html

The Case for Higher Taxes at the Very Top

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-08/richest-400-americans-pay-lowest-federal-income-tax-rates

Taxing the Rich – Pros and Cons

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/24/business/economy/wealth-tax-rich.html

Sanders’s Wealth Tax Is Too Much of a Good Thing

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-26/sanders-wealth-tax-is-too-much-of-a-good-thing 

Yang vs. Warren: Who Has the Better Tax Plan?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/business/yang-warren-taxes-mankiw.html