# Emmanuel Saez: Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Their Assistants

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Podcast: [Agitation Nation: A Podcast From The Fenton Forecast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fenton-forecast-choosing-our-future-7815754)
Published: 2026-08-25T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Economist Emmanuel Saez wrote California's first-ever billionaire wealth tax. The Berkeley economist behind Prop 40 explains why a 1% wealth tax could raise $20 billion a year — and why Google's co-founders are spending millions to stop it.

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