The case for taxing wealth, argument by argument.
This video is a personal reflection from the presenter, who discusses their love for classic literature, particularly Charles Dickens, and how reading provided an escape during a difficult childhood. It also serves as a call for viewers to share their own economic stories for an upcoming Channel 4 documentary.
Mentions Donald Trump
Raised as a counter-argument to rebut. “industrialist is complaining that um the government is trying to raise taxes on industrialists like him. And he says that if we raise taxes on the rich, on the ”
“Wealth was largely inherited. Um it wasn't to do with how hard you work or how smart you were. It it was just about who your dad was.”
“We expect life to get better gener generation after generation. We expect and hope that as we get older we will get richer and more financially secure until we ”
“We moved from a country with really terrible broad desperate poverty to one which provided a good decent standard of living to the vast majority of people. And ”
“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”
“I've been kind of convinced in my predictions of the future that living standards, um, and politics will get worse. And unfortunately, throughout the course of ”