Gary Stevenson
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We could get wealth taxes here in this country within the next few years.
And that means we have to ask the next question, which is what happens if we get them?
Alright, so there's been like a popular attack against me and against Zach Polanski, the other sort of big proponent of wealth taxes here in the UK, which I've been calling the magic wand theory.
I'm going to put into Google wealth taxes magic world tax magic wand.
And here you get, there's no magic wand to fix all the country's problems, Starmer.
There's no such thing as a magic wealth tax, Minister says, is that Rachel Reeves?
And there's been this like common attack against me and Zach on wealth taxes, which is if you bring in wealth taxes, like it's not gonna fix all the problems.
And I wanna be like totally clear, I have never said that wealth taxes are a magic wand.
My stance is and has always been,
If you do not stop inequality from increasing, you cannot stop living standards from falling.
That doesn't mean that if you do stop inequality from increasing, suddenly everything becomes perfect.
I am the guy who is saying in my little area of the boat, there is a hole in the bottom of the boat.
Please come down and patch up the hole.
Which is how I've been able to successfully predict that Sunak would fail and Starma would fail and how I will successfully predict right now that Burnham will fail if he does not do wealth taxes.
Like if you can see the hole in the bottom of the boat, you know that the boat is going to go down unless it's fixed.
But the truth is bringing the wealth tax in, it's not going to suddenly make things perfect.
It's simply the truth, you know, all it can do in the first instance is stop the collapse.
And the truth also is, you know, we cannot expect and I am not demanding that the Labour Party do wealth taxes now, you know, you know, obviously, I've done the work to go and build a relationship with Gabriel Zucman.
And I asked Gabriel Zucman, I don't think I did it on the channel, but I think I did it off off camera.
I said to him, listen, if I get Labour in,