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Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax

Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax
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Veronique de Rugy
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I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez—the famous UC Berkeley economist who’s considered an architect of California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax—is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not just biased or misleading but egregiously wrong, I’m not being careless. I mean it.

Veronique de Rugy
Veronique de Rugy
Author
Veronique de Rugy, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She has testified numerous times in front of Congress on the effects of fiscal stimulus, debt, deficits, and regulation on the economy. Previously, de Rugy has been a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and a research fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.