Dan Hodges

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1,371 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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the wealthiest were broadly insulated from that austerity and working people working people were well the wealthy
At precisely the point when the country was being told we had to experience austerity, the government of the day, George Osborne and David Cameron, decided to cut the top rate of tax from fifty percent to forty five percent.
Or what's that not doing?
So that's not insulating in insulating the the the the wealthiest, at the same time as working people were in in various other forms of taxation and the erosion of their pub public services were being w were shouldering a very significant
a hell of a lot.
No, but but but but but uh yeah, I s I see this argument used a lot and I I I get the point.
But the reality is firstly
Y d y you have to, in my view, look at what people are paying in in proportionate terms, i not just in relation to their actual income, but the the actual experience of their lives.
So if somebody
Hmm.
uh say somebody in a in in in in in a uh a a working class community
D l let's use an example.
their child, because of the various things, their child can't afford to get a house of their own or whatever.
Means their child has to move in, they have to support their continue to support their child, et cetera, et cetera.
That has a direct and significant impact on on on on their lives.
If a wealthy person has to sell
one of their private jets, so they only now have three private jets.
Well no I'm not.
I mean that is the no but that but but but this is the thing I think.
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