Gary Stevenson
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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And where ordinary people are going into hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt to get degrees that get them the best jobs in the country and can't afford to buy a house.
Who's seizing whose assets here?
We used to be a country where ordinary working people could buy property.
Now we're a country where you can only inherit property.
You know, who, this is, are the most productive people in the country holding the assets here?
If the way to get assets, this really reminds me, I remember this early on in my career, I went on TV to argue against the Bet365 CEO had paid herself something like 360 million quid.
And I went on to debate someone from the IEA, which is a right wing think tank here in the UK.
And the argument she made was, well, you know, this is the cost you pay for talent.
You know, this is the reason why I think her name was Denise Coates got paid something like £360 million is because she's the most talented person in the country to run that job.
And unfortunately for her, the woman I was debating, I had looked up how Denise Coates got that job for which she got paid £360 million.
She got it because her dad owned the company.
Like this is, you know,
If you want a country that gives assets to productive people, stop charging ordinary working people, university graduates, 70% when you're not charging billionaires anything.
So I just want to say, and I would love for the economists to answer this, when you are opposing wealth taxes and you are supporting inheritance taxes, where is your intellectual integrity?
How?
How can you be viscerally opposed to taxing the richest people in the world 1% on their stock of wealth every year when you are simultaneously allegedly supportive of taxing them 50% every 30 years?
Is it the time horizon?
Are you aware that for the super rich inheritance taxes and wealth taxes are effectively the same?
I just do not understand where this has come from.
So then this asks the question basically, how, and I think this is probably the most interesting thing, how and why have the Western intellectual classes, as typified by The Economist here,
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