The case for taxing wealth, argument by argument.
This video argues that recent inflation and rising inequality in the UK stem from the government injecting vast sums of money into the economy, disproportionately benefiting the wealthy. It critiques the media's failure to connect this monetary expansion to price increases and the growing wealth gap, suggesting that taxing the super-rich could alleviate the current cost-of-living crisis.
Mentions Liz Truss
“if we tax them back we can make your life better and if we don't unfortunately everybody's life is going to get worse except for the super rich are richer than ”
“the rich get richer ordinary people get poorer inequality increases and ordinary people find it harder to live because you as an ordinary person are competing w”
“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”