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• Gabriel Zucman

  • What role did Gabriel Zucman play in designing California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax?
  • Why did more than 130 economists urge voters to reject the wealth tax Gabriel Zucman helped design?
  • What objections were raised to Gabriel Zucman’s research when he received the John Bates Clark Medal?

• Wealth tax

  • How did California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax affect residents’ relocation decisions before the vote?
  • Why might California’s proposed wealth tax cost the state more revenue than it raises?
  • How did organized labor become an obstacle to California’s billionaire wealth tax initiative?

• Government censorship

  • What did Michael Shellenberger’s Twitter Files reporting reveal about government involvement in social-media censorship?
  • What concerns about government censorship surrounded the Biden administration’s disinformation board?
  • What did Mark Zuckerberg say about federal pressure on Meta to restrict speech?