Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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So you want to bring in a private
I'm not making a specific policy point.
I'm making a broader point.
I'm contesting the argument you make.
Oh, everybody across the board has been facing a during the the years of austerity, everyone across the board has been has has been facing the same burden.
And even the argument you put forward, which is wealthy pe what wealthy people pay as an overall proportion of the tax the tax take from the state, it's not about that.
It's about the direct impact of a period of austerity, of economic hardship, of s of social hardship.
And the reality is
The wealthiest, as you conceded you said because they're wealthy, have been insulated from that.
Sometimes because of their own financial sex uh success and other times because of wealth that they've been able to inherit.
Yeah,
But regard but the point is, regardless of
how or or why we can have a debate about whether every wealthy person in this country is wealthy because of their their their great entrepreneurship and and innovation.
There are many examples of that.
There are other examples of people who are wealthy because they're basically dodgy whatever and or whatever.
Yeah, absolutely.
So but but but in going b taking it back to the broader argument.
It doesn't really matter.
what w we can have the debate about how they created their wealth.
The reality is if you turn round now, you were talking about hard choices.
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