Thursday, August 08, 2019

Episode 142: How Would Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Work?; Nepalese Women Fight For Equal Pay in Construction

The Working Life Podcast with Jonathan Tasini
Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for a wealth tax in the country is a potential game-changer. It would apply only to households with a net worth of $50 million or more—roughly the wealthiest 75,000 households, or the top 0.1%. those super rich would pay an annual 2% tax on every dollar of net worth above $50 million and a 3% tax on every dollar of net worth above $1 billion. I dig into the idea of a wealth tax with David Gamage, a professor of law at Indiana university and a tax law expert who has just written the first draft of an article called “Five Key Research Findings On Wealth Taxation for the Super Rich”.

Then, I look at a fight for equal pay by women in Nepal who work in the construction industry. For that chat, I welcome to the show Feyzi Ismail who, among her various posts, teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London where she also is a senior fellow in the Department of Developmental Studies.

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Ep 142: How Would Warren’s Wealth Tax Work?; Nepalese Women Fight For Equal Pay in Construction


Episode 142: Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for a wealth tax in the country is a potential game-changer. It would apply only to households with a net worth of $50 million or more—roughly the wealthiest 75,000 households, or the top 0.1%. those super rich would pay an annual 2% tax on every dollar of net worth above $50 million and a 3% tax on every dollar of net worth above $1 billion. I dig into the idea of a wealth tax with David Gamage, a professor of law at Indiana University and a tax law expert who has just written the first draft of an article called, “Five Key Research Findings On Wealth Taxation for the Super Rich”. Then, I look at a fight for equal pay by women in Nepal who work in the construction industry. For that chat, I welcome to the show Feyzi Ismail who, among her various posts, teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London where she also is a senior fellow in the Department of Developmental Studies. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
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