Gary Stevenson

The reason that The Economist is coming out against this

it's because they're scared we're going to win you know and it's that age-old quote that was attributed probably incorrectly to was it Matt McGandy first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win and you know that has been like exactly the experience of me on this channel you know I was ignored for years and then you know for most of the last year they spent the time just laughing at me and Zach Polanski and taking the piss out of us and saying we were idiots and not academics and then Gabriel Zuckman

writes an article signed by seven Nobel laureates and now they realise they can't just pretend these ideas are nonsense anymore they have to fight it and they're coming out fighting it by just tying themselves up in knots and it is a good laugh really to get these guys to expose really how mad they are there's just no logical argument to support inheritance taxes which are widely hated and oppose wealth taxes which are widely supported but we've backed them into a corner we've backed them into a corner on this

And it makes me again say the same thing I've been saying for the last few weeks.

And I wouldn't say this if I didn't believe it, because if you watch any of my older videos, you'll see I'm incredibly pessimistic.

We're going to get this.

You know, obviously, I hope it's under the new Prime Minister.

And if you are in Makerfield this week, we're strongly endorsing a vote for Andy Burnham because it gives us a chance of wealth taxes.

I don't know if he's going to be any good, but a chance is better than no chance.

We could get this.

We could get this.

But what we need is to keep doing what we have been doing, which is to keep

the pressure on keep sharing a simple and easy to understand message if you don't deal with inequality you cannot improve living standards the only way to deal with inequality is taxation of the very rich you know push that again and again and again so that when I pass out and go on holiday these magazines like The Economist keep and people like you know politicians like like Keir Starmer have to keep talking about it push it push it push it

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Thank you very much.

All right, welcome back to Gary's economics.

I've been really looking forward to doing this week's video because I get to talk to you about what I have been working my tits off for basically the last couple of months.

I've become more or less a full time lobbyist in this country.

And that is because the UK is currently by far the closest it has ever been to introducing wealth taxes, which is unbelievably exciting.

And you can pat yourself on the back for that.