Gary Stevenson
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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managed to get themselves to such a like you know picturesquely stupid situation as simultaneously opposing and supporting the same tax based on whether it is every one year or every 30 years.
So I think if you want to understand what is going on in the heads of these people who hate wealth taxes but apparently love inheritance taxes, I think probably the best answer I've got was given to me in one of these meetings.
So last year I had these two separate meetings.
where influential figures in British economics and politics said to me, oh, wealth tax is never gonna work.
What we need is inheritance taxes.
And the first time it happened to me, I was honestly immediately quite shocked.
I was just like, how?
How can you support wealth taxes and be against inheritance taxes?
And this lady said to me, listen, wealth tax is never gonna work.
What I need you to do is get the public
to want to support inheritance taxes and i and i had my head in my hands and i said do you not understand like if what you want is for somebody to build public support for a tax which taxes the richest people in the country based on their stock of wealth so that we can actually get some tax out of these guys i have literally delivered that to you on a plate
And you are now turning around to me and saying, oh, we don't want that.
We want it to be specifically called an inheritance tax.
And I remember she looked at me, honestly, oh God, it reminded me of being at church as a kid when these guys looked at me like, what the fuck are you saying?
Like, this is just, I cannot accept this.
I cannot believe it.
Like brain does not compute.
It came up again then in another meeting with somebody a few days later.
And I don't know, it's probably a few weeks later.
And I tried again to explain to this gentleman
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