For a wealth tax economic
Raises real revenue
A tax on the largest fortunes can fund public services without raising taxes on low- and middle-income households.
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Could we be about to get wealth taxes in the UK?“um they have the capacity to um they have the capacity to bring money uh desperately needed money into the UK government coffers”
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Politics has broken a 200 year trend. Here's what happens next“the move towards wealth taxes and a focus on economy, and a move towards, um, aggressive focus on social media. And it has to be said, Zack Polanski has worked ”
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UK Budget – The End of Democracy?“If all of the assets are owned by the rich, you can have a good state and a good country and a good economy and good living standards if you are willing to tax ”
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Is the Labour government over?“We have in the Labour Party a government that is phenomenally unpopular, looks very likely to lose the next election, is desperately in need of money and new id”
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Are Labour Unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?“If you don't tax the rich living standards will keep falling”
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You won't stop Reform by calling their supporters racist“So for me if the wealth tax was possible I'm at a stage in my politics where I would actually support it.”
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The first politician on Gary's Economics“it's also about bringing back into the collective pool the resources necessary to build the foundations of the society that all of us bloody live in”
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Will Reform win the next UK election?“the best economic strategy for you to pick is wealth taxes, is inequality, Because really, this is the simple question, is, "What the **** else is there?"”
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Why money obsession is keeping you poor“either you tax the rich, or you don't get the growth”
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Is the economy causing a mental health crisis?“I've been doing a lot of videos about explaining why we need wealth taxes, how can you convince your friends that we need wealth taxes. And obviously, really, t”
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The government will tax the middle class out of existence“In the absence of taxation of the rich, the middle class will inevitably be eaten next.”
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Why your government is about to raise YOUR taxes“you only have two options do you tax the rich? Or do you tax the middle class? and I'm here campaigning for tax the rich but the truth is most governments at th”
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Why billionaires are funding the far right“us, tax the rich. So if you are a us, tax the rich. So if you are a us, tax the rich, what are you right or tax the rich, what are you going to do? You are goin”
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How to take over your country on Youtube“We're trying to cut tax on working people. We're trying to raise tax on people who have 100 million, a billion in assets.”
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Bankrupt countries don't have welfare states“Now, if you do not get that wealth back, you have no choice but to shut the welfare state down.”
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I'm back. This is how we fix the UK“the government is hemorrhaging wealth the middle class is hemorrhaging wealth and you you try to fix it without stopping that hemorrhaging of wealth”
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Should a Wealth Tax Be Imposed on the Nation's Richest 10% to Stabilise the EconomyIf she wants to hit the top 10% of earners, bring that 45p threshold down to £70,000. That's going to raise 12 billion pounds roughly.
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Meeting Gary's favourite economist: Ha-Joon Chang“in the 1960s and '70s, Britain was one of the most equal countries in the world, you know? People don't often realise it. The country was growing faster than wh”
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We can do it here, we've done it beforeRaised as a counter-argument to rebut. “they don't bring in that much revenue. What makes you think it would be different here?”
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Start protecting your resources“start protecting your wealth you do that by taxing the rich”
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Why Labour and Trump will both fail“They understood that the only way to protect working people was to tax work less and wealth more.”
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How to keep your house“The only way to stop that tax the super rich, lower tax on ordinary people.”
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Is the UK government bankrupt?“The only way to defend your resources once you've given them away is to work on your taxation policy. And we should be in a situation now where we don't need to”
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Everything You've Missed on the Economy“Increasingly, what is clear is we live in an economy where more and more and more is being owned by the rich. So you are left with basically a choice. Either yo”
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If you give money to everyone, you have to tax it back from the rich.“if you give 600 billion pound to the rich and you don't want to see effect you have to find ways to take that money back”
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Tax Is How We Defend Ourselves“when I talk about taxing the rich, people think that it's mainly about revenue raising. This is true. It's true.”
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Will the rich leave the UK?“The wealth is here. It is the wealth of our countries. But if we allow it to be held by a small group of extremely wealthy families who pretend they live in the”
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The only power you have“we're going to make the Rich pay first level of taxes and we're going to use level of taxes and we're going to use level of taxes and we're going to use that mo”
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This is how I'm going to vote“The only way to stop the increasing inequality is to significantly increase taxes on the rich, so that we can cut tax on ordinary people.”
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How do we REALLY increase investment?“And the only way to do that is to tax the rich. And I know I say it millions of times, and I'll say it millions of times more, because until we do that, our soc”
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Inflation WILL Fall This Week“The only way to make things better is to tax the rich more, tax ordinary working people less. That way we can get wealth flowing in the other direction.”
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Burning Money“This amount of money would be enough to give £16,000 to every adult in the country.”
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Why Are Taxes So High?“The reason that governments are having to charge much higher levels of tax to provide much worse levels of service is quite simply because governments are much,”
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How You Lose Your House“one alternative to this would be to tax very rich people who are seeing the biggest and fastest ever increases in their wealth in history, tax them more to pay ”
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This is how tax should work“tax is the only way you regular working person in your country can protect yourself from this super rich”
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Who Should We Blame?“the only way to stop that from happening is significantly increased taxation of the rich it's as simple as that”
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Debt & Ownership“If the government goes £700 billion into debt and you don't get £14,000, it's effectively the same as the government taking £14,000 from you and giving it to th”
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Ask Them This Question #shorts“if we took that money back we could fix if we took that money back we could fix these problems these problems these problems who has the money now”
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We Will Lose The Property Owning Middle Class“the only way to fix that is the pump wealth back in the other direction and um we've called to it many times on this channel we need high tax on rich people It'”
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Why Your Wages Aren't Going Up“if you don't tax the rich who've made a ton of money then you're going to end up taxing ordinary working people are increasingly being squeezed”
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Inflation, Interest Rates & House Prices“if we took that back you would see a collapse in inflation a massive collapses these people desperately tried to raise that cash right”
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How Covid £700bn Is Killing the Economy“If we were to tax back the rich just enough to make them as rich as they were 3 years ago we would have enough to give every single adult in this entire country”
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Jeremy Hunt's "Black Swan" Events“we are draining the resources of this economy and giving it to the super rich who do not pay any tax”
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Where is the Money? - What I Learnt on the BBC“if we took that money back we could fix these problems”
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The City, Levelling Up & £700billion - Gary on Politics Live“you need to bring in something that will transfer that wealth back if you do not if you're willing to give 700 billion pounds to riches and do nothing to bring ”
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Christmas Message“if we were to tax the rich just enough to make them as rich as they were at the beginning of covid we could give every single adult in the country twelve thousa”
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Debt and The Fiscal Black Hole“why don't we tax them?' because the reality of the situation here is that £600,000,000,000 which has been lost by the government is exactly pound for pound offs”
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How Wealth Inequality Affects The Economy“governments can't raise much tax from Ordinary People but often also don't raise tax from the rich for a variety of reasons the rich or newspapers on lobbyists ”
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#Q&A1 - How did Wealth Inequality Improve after World War 2?“after the World War II you saw a big increase in tax rates on the very reach not just in the UK but really globally”
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Interest Rates & House Prices - What's Going to Happen?“if we were to tax the rich just to bring them as rich as they were before covert weekly deep every single adult in the country 12 000 pounds we could easily fix”
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Politics - Liz Truss and Labour“if we were to tax that back we could give it to you we could cut your taxes we could improve a living stance for ordinary people we wouldn't have to cut Public ”
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Markets React to the Governments Budget #shorts“so how are you going to pay it back to pay it back”
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Government transfers cash to the Richest #shorts“if you were to tax the wealthy know if you were to tax the wealthy enough now to make them as rich as they enough now to make them as rich as they were before c”
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Post-Budget: Why the Markets Reacted“if you're not going to tax the rich people who have all the world you're not going to be able to to pay the debt back”
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Post-Budget: The Reality of the Cost of Living Crisis“if you were to tax the entire wealthy class enough to make them as rich as they were before covert started you could give every single adult in the entire count”
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Understanding Money and Inequality“if we were to tax that back and just make the rich as rich as they were before Covid we could give every single adult in this country £13,000 and this crisis wo”
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Why Liz Truss's Energy Plan Won't Work“this could be paid for almost entirely just by taxing 1 year of excess profits of just 250 individuals in the country”
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Telling the Rich To PAY Tax - Part 2 with Stephanie Brobbey“depriving those governments of their ability to raise taxes the correct amount of Revenue to invest in public services”
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The Truth about "Cost of Living Crisis" Conspiracies“450 billion pounds got given to the rich in the last three years from the government an enormous enormous amount of money”
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Should Rishi Sunak & Roman Abramovich pay a wealth tax? #Shorts“of course we can tax them and that raises course we can tax them and that raises course we can tax them and that raises the question well why don't we then”
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I Used to Help the Rich Avoid Tax - Part 1 Stephanie Brobbey“depriving those governments of their ability to raise taxes the the correct amount of Revenue to invest in public services”
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Why Mick Lynch is a Media Sensation“the government gave out 450 billion pounds to the rich unbelievably huge amount of money - £10,000 per person so the average rich person is getting like a £100,”
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How Covid Money Caused Today's Economics Disaster“the obvious way to deal with that is to the obvious way to deal with that is to tax this enormous amount of money tax this enormous amount of money”
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Rising Interest Rates & The Bank of England“the government essentially gave out £450 billion pounds of cash during Covid which is a truly truly enormous amount of money”
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The Decade The Rich Won on BBC2 - Intro, Outro & Gary's Highlights“the consequence of economic collapse and the consequence of economic crisis is repeatedly a massive increase in stock and asset prices and who owns stocks and w”
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Multi Millionaire Ex-Trader Explains Exactly why Economics is Totally Broken“in the last two years the government printed £450 billion pounds an unbelievably huge amount of money and effectively transferred that money to the richest”
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Rishi Sunak - Follow the Money“raise tax on the super rich that's not going to happen right”
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The Rich Are Getting Richer - What Can We Do About It? T.Y.T with David Shuster“in the united states for example taxing some of the wealthiest americans in order to help pay for things that the government is currently not paying for”
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HOW this crisis happened (and how we fix it)“three you tax the rich which 100 is what i'm advocating for”
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Predicting the Post Covid Economy“we are not taxing the super rich we are taxing them at super low rates so we're sucking the wealth and the income out of this country and we're giving it to thi”
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Spring Statement Reaction - Trader Gary Stevenson“the only way we save ordinary families like the people listening to this now is by getting that money back from the super rich”
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Telling MPs to Tax the Rich on the BBC“one off idea of having a wealth tax was it was the equivalent of putting 9p on the basic rate of income tax so the the difference that would make”
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Why Energy Price Rises Punish the Poor & Reward the Rich“there has never been more money in the bank accounts of the rich and the super rich”
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Inflation - Why We Should Have Seen This Coming“understand that we can't fix it unless we get that money back”
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Government Debt = Government Cuts?“if we tax that wealth back we can afford all the things that we as a society need if we don't tax it back then number one we can't afford those things and numbe”
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Basics of Investing“the only way that people as a whole are going to improve their lives is basically by bringing changes to the tax system and making the wealthy people pay higher”
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Why This Millionaire Supports a Wealth Tax“that money could be used to improve education to improve health care or to reduce the rates of tax currently being paid by you and hard-working families”
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Gary Destroys Billionaire Defender - on Cristo's talkRADIO Political Panel“106 billion pounds made by billionaires in this country just during cover the biggest ever one-year increase in wealth that's a lot of money if we use that mone”
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Autumn Budget Analysis 2021 @conversationofmoney podcast“they wanted to raise an extra 10 billion pounds a year and they've done that by raising raising your taxes but if you look at just three individual families in ”
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Railways & Refugees - Jeremy Kyle's TalkRadio Political Panel“the top 250 individuals most rich individuals in this country made 106 billion pounds last year”
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National Living Wage Rise - too little, too late? Gary on LBC with Richard Spurr“the national insurance rise is supposed to national insurance rise is supposed to raise 10 billion pounds a year so this tax which has been risen from ordinary ”
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UK Millionaires - Tax us Please??? Gary on Times Radio with Mariella Frostrup“when the government needs money to pay for social care 10 billion a year rather than looking to taxing the billionaires”
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National Insurance Rise - Punishing the Poor? LBC NEWS with Philip Chryssikos“the government apparently needs an extra 10 billion pounds a year to pay for social care”
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Why is Wealth Inequality so important?“anything becomes affordable so it drives me mad”
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How growing BILLIONAIRE wealth affects YOU - Gary on LBC with Clive Bull“the government has increased its debt by 450 billion pounds during this crisis and 250 individuals have increased their wealth by 600 billion pounds”
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How to get paid £480million... - Gary on Times Radio with Mariella Frostrup“if you increase uh income tax for instance then it can lead to lower revenues for the treasury”
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Who pays for this crisis: Rishi Sunak or you? Gary on talkRADIO with Ian Collins“would raise 260 billion pounds over five years”
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I made millions from the financial crisis, Trust me the system is broken. Gary on AE Podcast“what i'm pushing for at the moment is a wealth tax on very wealthy individuals”