Gary Stevenson
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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These guys are paying in many cases nothing.
You know, Jeff Bezos got like benefits for his kids because his declared income was so low.
This is the current situation.
The reason Elon Musk is worth a trillion dollars is because they reckon his assets are going to be assets that you need.
And you're going to have to pay all of your future income to him.
So I think what this is, it's a bit of a call to arms.
It's a call to seriousness.
but I want it also to be like a call for us to like stop pretending that the taxation of the super rich is a left-right issue because it just quite simply is not this is it's about dignity or poverty you know look at history you know look at European history you know
Before the mid 20th century, you know, desperate poverty was the norm.
I've spoken about how my grandma was born pretty much exactly 100 years ago here in London, which was at that time the richest city in the richest country in the world and lost three siblings to tuberculosis, a disease of poverty.
That kind of poverty was normal.
It can happen again.
it will happen again but we also created a much more equal world where ordinary people can live in dignity and we have a choice you know either we tax the super rich and we preserve that dignity we preserve our welfare states we preserve the ability of ordinary families to own property or we accept going back to that kind of extreme inequality extreme poverty
feudal era that we lived in, you know, really the whole 1800, 1700, 1600, basically the whole of the history of Europe.
And that shouldn't be left or right.
It shouldn't be left or right.
It's quite simply a question of if you don't tax them, they will aggressively buy up all of the assets and you will be left with nothing.
Now, the next thing that I want to do is I want to address one pushback that I might get on this.
It might be more of a sort of psychological pushback in people's heads.
which is this idea that, well, well, I'm going to be OK because I've already got some assets and I'm not going to sell mine.
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