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'll struggle to find that working anywhere.
So if you want to cut taxes on workers, which is what Jeff Bezos is really pushing, maybe we should tax you more.
You Jeff Bezos.
And then Jeff Bezos again throws the ball away.
It's another distraction, which is that no, actually, the real problem is
a spending problem and uses this term which uses I think uses it seven times in the whole interview, which is skills.
He says it's, it's a skills issue.
And now he's moved the argument on to something which is, at least in theory, more economically feasible.
So his first argument is okay, should we tax you more?
And he's like,
how about we tax working people less um and that's nice it's it's bait for working people because working people want to pay less tax but like it really is not economically complete because we can't just start taxing everybody less unless we want to do austerity um and in countries like the uk where we've seen austerity that's been incredibly painful so then he says okay okay
we can tax working people less without taxing you more by cutting government spending.
And he kind of floats this idea that government spending at the moment is wasteful.
It's inefficient.
I'm really interested in his repeated use of this term skills issue, which I'll get into a little bit more later.
And once again, what you have is an argument which
on the surface is appealing and the reason that it's appealing is because
Everyone hates government.
It's becoming more and more widely accepted in public opinion that politicians are like dickheads and governments are wasteful.
So like, yeah, like, you know, of course, like we want to reduce government waste and we want to increase government inefficiency and we want to improve government skills.
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