Aditya Chakrabortty
speaker
493 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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So actually, if we continued on the same share of wealth and worker power that we had in the 70s, the average household would be something close to 10 grand a year better off.
That's how far back we've gone.
So if you want to reverse that, then what do you need?
Well, you need to have more services back in the hands of the public sector.
You need to have stronger trade unions.
You need to have a better news and information ecosystem, which is not in the hands of tech oligarchs, which means more publicly owned media.
And you need generally to have a shift in relations between labour and capital back towards capital, as we used to have in our past.
It's really interesting to see Andy Burnham's stance on this, because he said to Gary Lineker, look, I'm not against a wealth tax, but I would not be sure that there will be anything marked a wealth tax that in any budget between now and the next election.
Right.
I would not be betting on that.
OK.
However, what I could easily see is him doing exactly the kind of things that Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer did before, which is they did raise taxes on wealth, you know.
They did change inheritance tax.
They did change capital gains tax.
I expect those changes to continue because they do need to raise more money to keep our public services running.
The idea of something that just is cool is wrapped up in fancy wrapping and is called a wealth tax.
I think that's for the birds.
Really?
Yeah, because I do not think.
Yes, something called a wealth tax does capture the imagination and it does speak to a frustration that lots of people have with our politics and economics.
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