Gary Stevenson

And you say at the end of the meal, hey, listen, you know, how about maybe, you know, you cover this one.

And I say, listen, forget about that.

I've got a better idea.

I'm not going to pay for it.

But how about you don't pay for it?

Like this is it.

It doesn't really...

Especially in the UK context where, you know,

government finances are quite stretched, but increasingly US finances are quite stretched as well.

The US has a large and a large deficit and a large and rapidly growing debt and borrowing costs in the US are rising like they are here.

It doesn't.

It's a strange argument, right?

It's a strange argument to say, OK, well, tax money is needed.

So instead of me paying more, how about you pay less?

And it would be easy.

And before I made this video, I watched a lot of there's been a lot of US media about this and a lot of people kind of like

on Jeff Bezos a little bit, but I think it would be easy to dismiss this as like, well, this is like a dumb argument, especially if you're viewing it from the UK perspective, because we had just a few years ago, we had a prime minister, Liz Truss, who basically came in like with this tax strategy of what we're going to do is we're going to cut tax on billionaires and we're going to use that to cut tax on working people.

And what happened is like basically immediately it caused like an enormous economic crisis.

This is not a fully fleshed out

economic argument, but I think it's a bit rash to, to immediately disregard it because I think to a degree it is an intelligent argument from a kind of like a rhetorical, like a persuasive perspective for like a very simple reason, right?