As of 2025, Zohran Mamdani's stated policy positions include advocating for higher taxes to expand government social programs, reevaluating the United States' relationship with Israel, and implementing a rent freeze in New York City.
October 03, 2025
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Summarizes policy positions attributed to Zohran Mamdani.
A 2025 NBER working paper by Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman estimated that the total effective tax rate (all taxes paid relative to economic income) of the top 0.0002% of U.S. households (approximately the Forbes 400) averaged 24% in 2018â2020, compared with 30% for the full population and 45% for top labor income earners.
August 01, 2025
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Effective tax rate is defined as all taxes paid relative to economic income; the top 0.0002% corresponds approximately to the Forbes 400.
A 2012 California ballot initiative made it harder for corporations to avoid certain taxes and directed the new revenue to energy improvements in public schools.
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State ballot initiatives can modify corporate tax avoidance rules and earmark revenue for specific public infrastructure projects.
California's ballot initiative process can be used to change tax rules and dedicate resulting revenue to specific public programs, such as directing tobacco tax revenue to state health programs or steering corporate-tax-related revenue to public-school energy improvements.
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Describes how voter-approved ballot measures in California have been used to alter tax policy and earmark funds.