From "Trumponomics": Can the US Actually Tax Billionaires?

为什么美国收不到富人的税?

The Economics Show

2026-08-14

25 分钟
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As wealth becomes increasingly concentrated — and artificial intelligence threatens to shift even more income from workers to investors — has the US tax system become outdated? Stephanie Flanders speaks with Harvard professor Jason Furman, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama, and Bloomberg reporter Caitlin Reilly about wealth taxes, capital gains, inheritance and whether taxing America's richest is politically or constitutionally possible. Hear more from Trumponomics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trumponomics/id1038108799 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Hi listeners.

  • The Economics with Soumaya Keynes is taking a couple of weeks off its usual programming.

  • So today's episode is from the Bloomberg Podcast, Trumponomics.

  • The show explores how US President Donald Trump is shaking up the global economy and what will happen next.

  • Each week, economist and journalist Stephanie Flanders explores these questions with a team of academics and fellow reporters.

  • Today's episode examines whether taxing America's richest is politically or constitutionally possible.

  • Search for Trumponomics wherever you listen.

  • I'll be back here soon.

  • But for now, enjoy the show.

  • Bloomberg Audio Studios.

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  • I'm Stephanie Flanders, head of government and economics at Bloomberg, and this is Trumponomics,

  • the podcast that looks at everything in the economic world of Donald Trump.

  • This week we thought it made sense to talk about how the US tax system is struggling to tax gazillionaires

  • and whether any of the bright ideas being floated for extracting more from the mega-rich would actually work.

  • It's not only the so-called class warriors who are worrying about wealth taxes these days.

  • The International Monetary Fund held a war gaming exercise a few months back with around 50 finance and technology experts.

  • David Ramli wrote about it for Businessweek.

  • It included folks from Google DeepMind and the RAND Corporation and the Federal Reserve,

  • and they spent hours debating how AI could upend the global economy in various ways.