Aditya Chakrabortty
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493 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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This is The Guardian.
Something called a wealth tax does capture the imagination and it does speak to a frustration that lots of people have.
Why is it me that's always getting taxed?
The idea of something that is wrapped up in fancy wrapping and is called a wealth tax, I think that's for the birds.
It speaks to a huge frustration that I think is felt not just in this country, but across rich countries.
In Britain, we haven't had much in a way of growth in our wages for nearly 20 years since the banking crash.
It's a very high, highly unequal economy.
We see
In the news, and in fact, our news is increasingly controlled by billionaires.
We're going to go on a platform which is owned by billionaires, right?
And the wealth tax speaks to that great frustration.
Like, why do these people get to run our world?
How do we get to have more of a degree of power back in
And how do we get some more money back?
Why am I being taxed all the time for all these things?
And it feels like my life is very hard.
And I can see these people at the top and their life's not hard.
And not only is their life not hard, they're taking more and more stuff.
And the wealth tax speaks to all of that.
So just to be really clear, what Zach Plansky is proposing is an annual tax on people's wealth.
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