Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who works for a tax-exempt institution that bought him an $8 million townhouse to live in (exempt from property tax because it is owned by Columbia), was last seen here exhorting an Occupy Wall Street audience to go find the One Percent and "Tell 'em they're paying, whether they like it or not."
Now Professor Sachs, of all people, has emerged to side with Mayor de Blasio against Governor Cuomo on the question of whether New York's high-income individuals should be forced to pay taxes even higher than the current top rates, which are more than 50 percent at the margin.
Capital New York (here) and the New York Times (here) both report on Professor Sachs' involvement, with the Times describing the economist as "chastising the governor for not endorsing a tax increase in New York City."