Gary Stevenson

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Garys Economics · Why does The Economist hate wealth taxes? · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, so I've been traveling around the world in the last few, well, few months, six, seven, maybe a year or so.

And so in this country, our far right party reform is, has been from the beginning funded by Richard Tice and

I think there's a very clear reason why billionaires would fund far-right parties, because they know that the future is going to be either me and my lot win, tax the rich, or some new political narrative which they need, so they fund this anti-immigration narrative.

And every single country that I went to, I would ask, who funds your far-right party?

And every single time, the answer would be, our local billionaire.

So, you know, I think what you are seeing, and it has to be mentioned, The Economist is also owned by very wealthy people.

Really, what you are seeing is people simply trying to throw distractions away.

Say, no, no, no, don't tax us, do an inheritance tax.

Don't tax us, I'll give you a thousand pounds a month.

Don't tax us, kick out the immigrants.

All of these things are just basically distractions to stop you from pushing for the only thing you need, which is your assets back.

And the only way you will ever get that is by taxing the very rich.

But the next thing which I find really interesting about this is.

You know, we talk about how, you know, the far right is owned, is funded by incredibly wealthy people and the newspapers are owned by incredibly wealthy people.

And of course they, you know, they don't want you to tax them.

So they're going to keep making arguments to reduce the likelihood of a wealth tax.

But what's quite interesting is, you know, these people that I met,

two people I met in meetings last year and these are not the only people who believe these ideas and you know possibly the person who wrote this article in The Economist they themselves are not billionaires so I'm really interested in like the psychology of why people who are themselves not billionaires are really willing to like go out and bat for and fight for whatever you do don't tax the billionaires

And you know, one simple argument for this is like, well, you know, they're bought and sold.

The Economist is quite an interesting magazine because the individual articles, we don't know like who writes them.

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