Aditya Chakrabortty
speaker
493 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Why is it me that's always getting taxed?
Why isn't it other people?
The thing is, is that if you're sat in the Treasury and you're imagine you're a civil servant in Treasury trying to do trying to get a budget together.
Well, you have these taxes already that you use on wealth.
Why would you not just use those taxes which are already there and raise them, which would get you more money in?
As opposed to just trying to confect a new tax, entirely new, and say, let's call that a wealth tax.
For that, you need an actual popular mandate.
And that was not something that the Labour Party campaigned on in 2024 in their manifesto.
There's no mention of wealth tax.
And so it'd be very difficult for Burnham to bring something like that in.
But what I would love to see from Andy Burnham is I'd love to see stronger trade unions.
I'd love to see more public services back in the hands of the public.
And I'd love to see something done on media regulation so we have less of the will of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg running things.
Thank you.
This is The Guardian.
The most rapacious president in American history now has his little hands on our NHS.
So that may well mean that you get fewer doctors and nurses than you'd like, fewer ambulances than you'd like, fewer cancer scans than you'd like.
It could lead to something like 220,000 avoidable deaths.
It's basically a massacre made in Whitehall to buffer the shareholder returns of multinational pharmaceutical companies.
You know, the thing that really struck me, Lucy, was Donald Trump doesn't give away trade deals for free, right?
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