# Gabriel Zucman —wrong about how much CA taxes ultra wealthy pay (Part 2 of 2)
Date: 2026-04-01
Previous Part: https://disrael.github.io/blogs/raw/gabriel-zucman-wrong-about-how-much-ca-taxes-ultra-wealthy-pay.part1.md

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> Approximately 70% of land in the UK is owned by less than 1% of the population, with a significant portion of this concentrated ownership tracing back to families who arrived with William the Conqueror in 1066.

So do we know for sure that the descendants of the Gilded Age didn’t continue to be politically powerful and help cause our current fascist era? That’s the sort of thing economists should be researching instead of trying to convince us that billionaires only need to pay a smidge more tax.