For a wealth tax political
Strengthens social cohesion
Narrowing extreme wealth gaps reduces resentment and the sense of unfairness that strains social and democratic stability.
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Where it's been said
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Are we living through a new Victorian era?“if you keep allowing the economic structure of your society to eat the people at the bottom of the society, eventually you will be the person being eaten. And w”
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UK Budget – The End of Democracy?“The key here is whether we stand together, whether we're divided. Um, there's one way this budget can go. The government's going to bring in like 25 different [”
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Is the Labour government over?“This is your life, this is your kids, your grandkids. Can they buy a house? Can they afford a family? This is too serious to say, "I only like this guy, I only ”
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The first politician on Gary's Economics“it's about people realizing and this is my kind of classic go to that inspiration is not a reason to put somebody on a pedestal and go that person's gonna solve”
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My message to Reform supporters“If you guys are not able to aggressively find your common ground and unity, that division will tear this country apart and will destroy the living standards”
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How Wealth Inequality Affects You“The rich are also competing with you for are also competing with you for are also competing with you for essentially the ownership of your essentially the owner”
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If we're divided on immigration we'll lose the fight against wealth inequality“I do worry that this growing division is going to tear our country apart and it's going to prevent people like me from from getting the change that I need.”
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Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling“I think if the working people of this country are divided, that's only going to benefit the rich and uh ordinary families will get poorer and poorer. But if we'”
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Fix inequality or face societal collapse“If you if you don't want your country to collapse into poverty, you have to deal with this.”
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The very rich have no idea how dangerous the situation is“They're pushing for more in a way that is going to destroy the societies they live in.”
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Is the economy causing a mental health crisis?“If we are a country that is too selfish, that it cannot find enough people to protect their collective interests, then most people will be bankrupted.”
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The difference between Japan and the west“I think that we have the capacity as humans to both be selfish and care for ourselves and I think that you have to do that. you have if you don't care about loo”
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Reform will win if we don't tackle inequality“But more importantly than that, this country will collapse into desperate, desperate poverty.”
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A message to the super rich“by pushing this further and further and further and taking more and more and more, you are aggressively destabilizing the economies and political systems of the”
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I'm back. This is how we fix the UK“by pushing this further and further and further and taking more and more and more you are aggressively destabilising the economies and political systems of the ”
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Why Labour is crushing your living standards“Eventually, there is no wealth left other than that held by the rich, and the physical structure of your society changes such that it only supports consumption ”
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Telling The Diary Of A CEO why we need to tax the rich“I do not want this this country that I grew up in to fall into desperate poverty”
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Desperate poverty is the future of the UK and USA“the only time we've ever really been able to provide decent living conditions for ordinary working people was the period after the war where we massively redist”
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Immigration, the alt-right, the left and young men - Gary meets JimmyTheGiant“I worry that all of this narrative, all of this like discussion about it, is driving people against each other and making people distrust each other. And for me”
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The games and strategy of rich people. What I learnt at Citibank“Very rich and very... very rich and very powerful people are going to be trying to drive us apart and to make us unstable and to make us angry and to make us ha”
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Why you need to own a home“because it's awful going to be so socially divisive because a lot of homeowners will be happy and a lot of non-home owners includes a lot of young people”
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You are losing against Elon Musk“that means working together that only works if you guys don't hate each other”
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Understand the Economy Part 2: What Is Wealth Inequality?“So the first big difference you have between a more equal society and an unequal society is that the unequal society as a whole cares less about spending and ca”
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Tax Is How We Defend Ourselves“For me, tax, whilst revenue raising is a factor, tax is primarily about protecting ordinary people from the rich and stopping wealth transfer from ordinary peop”
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The only power you have“the only Power that ordinary people the only Power that ordinary people really have in response is taxation”
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How To Get Rich“if you can convince ordinary young people to focus only on their specific bank balances whilst the game is rigged so that it's very easy for the rich to rob the”
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The rich will fuel a huge asset price rally“think what will it mean for our society and for our political situation if house prices go up loads I think it's going to be unbelievably divisive”
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How We Fix Wealth Inequality“So we need to realise there's a systemic problem that is that is f*cking our young people. And that means that they will be poor and it's not their fault.”
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Gary on PoliticsJOE“if you do not fix inequality demanded it if you do not fix inequality demanded it if you do not fix inequality youring kids lives will be sh”
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The Economy: What You've Missed“unless we can create a positive alternative which says let's distribute wealth better, let's increased living standards, we're probably likely to move towards t”
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Why Your Economists Suck“I do this YouTube channel for free because I don't want society to collapse”
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Who Should We Blame?“it's in nobody's interest to massively destabilise society like what we are doing, you know last time this happened last time we saw this massive increase in in”
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The Devaluation of Money“And those are things which are possible if we deal with the wealth inequality and which will not be possible if we don't. So, yes, support the channel, promote ”
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Debt & Ownership“The government has gone into debt. The rich have accumulated huge amount of money that has led to a massive increase in inequality.”
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We Will Lose The Property Owning Middle Class“if you don't have a middle class society you have a rich and poor society and if you don't have a middle class society you don't need middle class housing what ”
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Channel Update - April 2023“the thing which one of the things which most upsets me about the inequality that we live in is I think that we are now more and more creating a society whereas ”
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Being Poor & Mental Health #shorts“if you are feeling like you are poor and other people around you are rich that is not your fault not your fault you have been given a system where it is impossi”
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Wealth Inequality is a Cancer #Shorts“if you allow this thing to grow if you allow this thing to grow unchecked it will destroy everything it unchecked it will destroy everything it unchecked it wil”
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How We Get Change“what they want is to create division amongst ordinary Ordinary working-class People because if people in the private sector are hating people in the public sect”
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Christmas Message“if you support a system which is driving tens of millions of people into poverty you can be as rich as you like but you need to support this message because if ”
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#Q&A2 - What will it look like if we don't fix Wealth Inequality?Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “I worry that things will probably go go that way with increase with increased division increase and the media becoming more aggressive and sort of trying to bui”
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#Q&A1 - How did Wealth Inequality Improve after World War 2?“everyone had housing education and Healthcare right and food all right that was so people saw during World War II that okay we can devote our entire economy to ”
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WW2 - Demanding Change #shorts“when times are really really bad that's an opportunity to bring people together”
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How Rich is Rich?“where does that leave my family where does that leave my community and um you know we're going to talk about different ways that that could be addressed”
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Telling the Rich To PAY Tax - Part 2 with Stephanie Brobbey“it's bad for democracies it destabilizes democracies it's not healthy for societies to be drastically unequal”
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United we Stand, Divided we Fall - Young vs Old #Shorts“if we allow that to become a division and especially if we become a division and especially if we become a division and especially if we allow likes to some deg”
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Why your Grandkids are (probably) going to be Poor...“if we allow young people to get angry and to hate the old then that will become a division which prevents all of the ordinary people of this country from coming”
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The Truth about "Cost of Living Crisis" ConspiraciesRaised as a counter-argument to rebut. “these conspiracies drive division they drive people apart and they force people into sort of panicked modes of thinking look - its 70-80-90% of the country gett”
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Why Rich People Get Richer“you cannot be surprised when these people turn to crime and these people turn to dangerous means of getting it if the best people were in the best jobs then the”
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Gary Stevenson Speaks to Patriotic Millionaires Washington DC“if your economy dies my economy dies too and my community my friends and my family their future their hopes and dreams they are dying as well”
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Crypto = Internet Points? Why it WON'T make you rich“The only way we can protect the financial position of ordinary families in this country is by coming together”
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What is Wealth? - @conversationofmoney podcast“if we don't find a way to tax them then they will increasingly own more and more and more of the wealth in this country and in the world and this planet and tha”
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Why is Wealth Inequality so important?“If you don't fix wealth inequality then we have bad education, bad healthcare, bad welfare state”
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Getting Top Jobs. Why top jobs go to rich kids.“we've created a generation of young men who have had wealth and financial success shove down their throats for their whole childhoods and have no legitimate mea”
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Growing up Poor in London...“if you hit kids with that every single day every single day every single day you can't be surprised when they get addicted to online training or maybe they turn”
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COVID-19 & INEQUALITY: Why the rich are getting richer but the economy will NOT recover“it is going to end social mobility in this country”