Emmanuel Macron’s governments keep failing because of their unpopular austerity plans. The one move they’ve refused to consider: imposing a wealth tax on the superrich who’ve benefited most from Macron’s agenda.

As France wonders if its new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, can cobble together a government coalition and squeeze through next year’s budget, debate is raging over soaring economic inequality — and the tax system that’s contributing to it.

Lecornu’s predecessor, François Bayrou, was toppled in September over a series of belt-tightening proposals widely accused of clobbering the middle and working class while giving a free pass to the superrich. Now, with centrist Lecornu in talks with the center-left Parti Socialiste to secure its backing, one of the Left’s flagship proposal

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