Ann Pettifor
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After all of that chaos, we're not going to manage the system.
We're going to regulate it.
And then as we watched them talking through Congress, talking through Dodd-Frank, we noticed that it was being diluted.
And we wondered, you know, I blamed all the Americans.
I kept going on about those Americans, blah.
Turns out it was a Brit.
I mean, so then, you know, there am I being so unkind about those Americans.
And it turns out it was the Brits.
You've just told the whole story of the book.
That's what the book's about, really.
But the point is this.
I get so annoyed with... I'm on the left.
And I have to say, the left are pathetic.
They keep going on about wealth taxes.
You know, what a joke.
You're in this little booth called Britain inside the casino.
And you're worried about how you're going to tax these guys going in and out of your economy.
The idea that you're going to say we're going to tax you and they're going to sit there and be taxed is ridiculous.