Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/scrap-austerity-tax-the-super-rich-instead/
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/scrap-austerity-tax-the-super-rich-instead/
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#Dyson
This corporate free-for-all needs to bloody well stop. it's gone too far and is just daylight robbery while they turn our country into a penal colony. Even a penal colliery if we aren't careful.
The poorest cannot afford more austerity and live. The wealthy have more 'dead' money than they know what to do with (apart from accumulate more). Exhume it and put it to good use.
Stop listening to the propaganda of the rich. That's why we're in this mess.
They can accrue the debt against their property or estate, payable upon death. Boom. Cash rich asset poor issue resolved.
We are looking to target those with the most, not John and Betty Smith with a 2 up 2 down in the north.
From the figures I've seen that would mend a large hole!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTuDttP2Yg
The issue is short-termism, not tax revenue.
It's like shooting ourselves in the foot slowly, so we don't really notice, all so we can buy a widget from Amazon a bit cheaper, but pay more in lots of other ways
People were cheering for the murder of a millionaire arsehole CEO. I think they'd even prefer not to kill them, but tax them instead.
But here's the trick: tax wealth - not wages. Let people earn. Don't let them hoard assets.
Dump them, put in genuine Labour.
Use the same enthusiasm in pursuing benefit cheats.
Wealth Tax is another Labour idea built on envy, not economic logic. Thus a typical idea for Rachel Thieves to try and adopt
When even the likes of George Soros are offering to pay wealth taxes, you know it is the logical thing to do. But our neoliberal governments, owned and controlled by big business, will never do this.
https://www.youtube.com/garyseconomics
But don't frame it as "tax the super-rich"
Frame it as "Don't tax work, tax asset ownership".
We get nothing anyway (except screwed).
They may run, but the scare tactics don't work anymore. Their money will remain where it's always been - Tax havens.
They won't take their assets because they earn money on them wherever they live.
So good riddance to the parasites.
No, I don't buy the "I'm rich therefore indispensable" propaganda.
The fact you think you can, however, tells me all I need to know about you.
And I don't get "wages".
Taxing wages is counter productive. And public services are already crumbling.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228281017_The_Economic_Consequences_of_the_French_Wealth_Tax
That doesn’t mean it’s impossible for a wealth tax to work but the Populists who say it’s simple or easy are lying.
What’s your alternative?
Until that happens, taxing income (including inheritance) is better.
I don’t subscribe to the idea that just because what we have is bad, that something else must be better.
This man's crusade must be followed.
Everything is currently out of kilter.
As one of them goes so is employment for the people who work for them
It is starting to really bite
Taxing heavily luxury goods will help as wealthy people consumption does not change with more taxes. Tax luxury goods
Labour should rename themselves to The Pathological Liars Party.
Anytime the government isn’t spending as much as people think it should = “austerity”.
SOCIALISTS MY HAIRY ARSE
This is just the Rich's scare tactics. Bugger them. Good riddance to the parasites.
Why hasn't this been doing the rounds?
He had no idea about the economy, but he was right about politics.
Keep the idea circulating. Maybe next shitty fan, it'll have enough public awareness.