Aditya Chakrabortty
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493 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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And every time a tax comes around, whether it's done by Rishi Sunak or Rachel Reeves, people go, oh, God, this again.
And if you look at the figures, the tax burden, as some economists call it, is at its highest since the Second World War.
So we're paying more in tax as a share of our pay packets than we have done for 80 years.
Now, there is also a big problem in this country that it is completely obvious to anyone who walks around that our public services, our public infrastructure, the public realm, our parks, our nurseries, our schools, none of them in the best of repair, right?
This is what having years of austerity does to you.
And not only is inequality stuck, but the deterioration of our public realm is really, really obvious to anyone who tries to use it.
So we've got to get money from somewhere.
And the wealth tax people say, well, this is how you do it.
I guess my kind of chief quibble with this is that they say the wealth tax is basically how you go about doing all sorts of different things.
Not only do you raise a bit of money, you start to turn back the forces of inequality.
You rein in the billionaires, right?
A tax on wealth and a tax on the money that you make from properties and financial assets, that's all good, right?
That will raise you some money.
But it won't achieve all the various things that wealth tax campaigners are calling for.
Because for that, you need to do a lot more.
This is a highly unequal country.
It did not just happen overnight.
It happened because we sold off our public sector.
We squeezed our unions out.
We took away working rights from people.
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