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Cash grab: why wealth taxes don’t work
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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. In the face of a sizable deficit, France has become the most recent country to consider instituting a wealth tax. Despite support from economists, such a levy is unlikely to be effective.
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