Eu Não Sou Comunista, Sou Apenas um Economista Francês

Todos conhecem a piada do viadinho que exclama: “I’m not gay, I’m British!”. Pois é, coisa semelhante acontece com os economistas franceses, que quando abrem a boca parecem comunistas argumentando. Nem mesmo os melhores economistas franceses, como Thomas Piketty, e Emmanuel Saez escapam, vejam o que eles escreveram: The bottom line is that rich countries have all grown at roughly the same rate over the past 30 years, in spite of huge variations in tax policies. Using a model in which the response of top earners to top tax rate cuts is due in part to increased rent-seeking behavior and in part to increased productive work, we find that the top tax rate could be as high as 83 percent—as opposed to 57 percent in the pure supply-side model—without harming economic growth.