Mary Harris

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236 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2023 last heard 25 May

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FT News Briefing · From “What Next”: How “Tax the Rich” Went Mainstream · 25 May 2026 podcast

I guess I would say, I think part of your argument is about people just turning down the heat with each other, right?

Like Zoran Mamdani not like tap it on the glass and say, I'm going to tax billionaires.

But I think he would argue if I'm going to tax billionaires, I have to be ballsy about it because they are going to come after me.

So I have to do the political thing of signaling I mean business and I have people behind me.

And so they've almost boxed him into a corner, he might say.

What would you say to that?

So did the billionaires do this to themselves?

Yeah.

The K is the divide with the wealthy getting wealthier and the poor getting poorer.

And it's just... Yes.

It strikes me that in New York City, with this Pieta tear tax, billionaires kind of dodged a bullet.

Like, this is the gentlest version of the rich people tax that they could have gotten here.

And in a way, it's a shot across the bow.

And my question is,

is whether billionaires are gonna take the note.

And I don't know the answer to that, whether they will dig in and both sides will dig in, or whether this will now be the beginning of like, okay, people may be coming for some of my money and maybe they kind of have a right to some of it, what do we do now?

Some people were delighted by the video, but they weren't billionaires.

Steph, I'm so grateful for you coming on the show.

Thanks for doing it.

Thanks for having me.

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