‘Tax the Rich’: Mamdani, Economist Zucman Push Global Wealth Tax

Gabriel Zucman told The Epoch Times he aligned himself with Mamdani since ‘we need to tax the super-rich everywhere: in New York, in Paris, all over the world.’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (R) with economists Gabriel Zucman (L) and Joseph Stiglitz at a Tax Day forum at the City University of New York Graduate Center on April 15, 2026. Nicholas Zifcak/The Epoch Times

On Tax Day, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted a public forum with two noted economists, calling for a tax on the “super-rich.”

The same day, the three men—Mamdani, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, and French economist Gabriel Zucman—co-signed a column in British newspaper The Guardian describing inequality as a “global crisis” and demanding that billionaires pay their “fair share.”