Gary Stevenson

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Garys Economics · Why Jeff Bezos wants to cut your taxes · 31 May 2026 podcast

And people like Margaret Thatcher and Reagan managed to convince the public that not taxing billionaires would be good for them.

And why did that happen?

Because quite simply, we forgot the thing which our grandparents and great grandparents and great great grandparents understood, which was that distribution and inequality matters.

You know, it's as simple as that.

And I've said it time and time again.

Now, if we have an intelligent, educated public that understand one simple thing, which is that if you allow inequality to grow rapidly, it will hurt living standards, then we will be 70, 80, 90% towards winning this battle.

And I think that that is where we need to be.

whether you're here in the UK or in the US giving all your money to Jeff Bezos or in Germany or in Australia or in France or in Italy or Spain or any of these countries we need to be in a situation where if you go outside and pull your average man or woman off the street and say why are living standards falling the answer that the majority of them give you is because inequality is rising

Once we get to that situation, then we will be able to fix this problem.

That is your answer to Jeff Bezos' five whys.

And the truth is, and I almost don't believe myself saying this, we're getting there.

We're getting there.

We're getting there all around the world.

Here in the UK, and I'll talk about this some more next week, we're going to get a new prime minister.

It could be as soon as the next couple of months.

It might take a year.

But when that new prime minister comes in, they will really, really, really, really struggle to win the confidence of the public unless they deliver something on inequality.

And the reason for that is quite simply because the British public understands now that if you don't act on inequality, their living standards will fall.

And I've been all across the world in the last year or so.

I've been, obviously, Australia, New Zealand.

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