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Gary Stevenson

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Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

We could get wealth taxes here in this country within the next few years.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

And that means we have to ask the next question, which is what happens if we get them?

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

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.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

I'm going to put into Google wealth taxes magic world tax magic wand.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

And here you get, there's no magic wand to fix all the country's problems, Starmer.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

There's no such thing as a magic wealth tax, Minister says, is that Rachel Reeves?

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

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.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

And I wanna be like totally clear, I have never said that wealth taxes are a magic wand.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

My stance is and has always been,

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

If you do not stop inequality from increasing, you cannot stop living standards from falling.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

That doesn't mean that if you do stop inequality from increasing, suddenly everything becomes perfect.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

I am the guy who is saying in my little area of the boat, there is a hole in the bottom of the boat.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

Please come down and patch up the hole.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

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.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

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.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

But the truth is bringing the wealth tax in, it's not going to suddenly make things perfect.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

It's simply the truth, you know, all it can do in the first instance is stop the collapse.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

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.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

And I asked Gabriel Zucman, I don't think I did it on the channel, but I think I did it off off camera.

Garys Economics
A wealth tax in the UK is becoming unavoidable

I said to him, listen, if I get Labour in,