The share of before-tax income going to the richest 1% of taxpayers has more than doubled in the last half-century. This ...

Professor Jacob Vigdor has conservative bonafides and raised progressives' ire with his past research on the minimum wage. But now he's all in for Washington to tax the rich.

Tax the rich has become a rallying cry for progressives highlighting issues of inequality in the U.S., but only in the last few years has the idea of a wealth tax truly permeated the public discourse.