Natasha Sarin on ways to reduce wealth inequality through tax policy

“Currently in this country, we have a two-tiered tax system because if you’re a wage earner who has W-2 income, your tax liabilities are automatically withheld … If you’re someone who earns income in opaque ways, which is disproportionately people at the very top of the distribution, you have the option to decide whether or not you want to fulfill your civic duty …. From an equity perspective, making sure that the same set of rules apply no matter how you want your income, no matter where you are on the wealth distribution, strikes us as super first order.” - Natasha Sarin