Gary Stevenson
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5,834 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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you know, if you want the public to accept a tax on the very rich, I have built that public support for you.
So come and help me do it.
And this guy turned around to me and said, Oh, but your tax, the specifics of your tax don't work.
And this guy was, you know, allegedly one of the tax experts of the country.
And I said to him, work with me to help me make it better so that it works that helped me do it helped me build it make it work.
And this guy just flatly laughed in my face.
And I think what this shows you is the reason these guys
Support inheritance taxes whilst opposing wealth taxes is because they don't want to pay tax.
It's as simple as that.
And they know that wealth taxes are becoming a political possibility.
And I think in the medium term, they're even a political probability.
Like, wealth taxes are probably going to come into place.
The new Hungarian government is going to do them.
These are going to happen.
And these people who in many cases are themselves rich, they look at that and they say, I don't want to pay tax on my wealth.
So what they want is to throw this distraction away and say, listen,
make inheritance tax because quite simply they know inheritance tax is hated, inheritance tax is demonized.
If it's called an inheritance tax, it won't happen.
The reason they are opposing wealth taxes but supporting inheritance taxes is because they want to appear like they are supporting greater taxation of the rich whilst actively doing everything they can to stop greater taxation of the rich from happening.
You know there's a great term which you should be aware of which is motivated reasoning and I think this is really exactly what we see and I see it a lot and it frustrates me a lot in the sort of world of political economics that I'm in now.
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