The case for taxing wealth, argument by argument.
This video offers advice on how to effectively advocate for wealth taxes in the UK, emphasizing a compassionate, educational approach over aggressive debate. It suggests understanding people's fears about economic decline and inequality, and tailoring conversations to build unity rather than division, especially given the perceived failure of the current economic status quo.
Mentions Donald Trump
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “The most common push back we get by a million miles is you can't tax them, if you tax them they'll leave”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “we live in a tax system which already taxes high earning individuals very highly it does not tax extremely wealthy families or individuals very highly at all”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “don't give money to the government if you give money to the government they'll waste it governments have been basically rapidly shut down in every country in th”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “if you tax people so much they will eventually like avoid the tax so if you really increase tax on work people will stop working or people will leave the countr”
“living standards are falling quite quickly people's children and grandchildren are and will be much poorer than than they are or they were and that is scary”
“if we do not do anything about this system then very very quickly the billionaires will own everything and you will own nothing and we will move into a system w”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “we're not trying to tax working people in fact we wanna reduce tax on working people we're trying to tax the billionaires the super super rich”
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “taxing rich people is really really hard so we shouldn't do it I agree taxing rich people is is super super hard”