Steve Baxter
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And they've gone out and lobbied for their own benefits, which they should.
It annoys me.
Tech bros have got a bad enough name as it is, right?
They shouldn't, I think there's societal issues of what they've actually tried to do.
In respect to that there.
I've lost my train of thought there, Sam.
That's terrible.
You're talking about tech bros lobbying after the budget?
Yeah, after the budget.
Yeah, with respect to the capital gains tax stuff.
But actually, in that sector, the tech startup sector there is nothing but on the left of politics.
So I'm actually quite funny.
They now get a chance to live in the world that they voted for.
And now they're all objecting to it, right?
Which is, I think, interesting in that respect there.
But with respect to the capital gains tax, I can't see there's anything good that's going to come of it.
It's a large, it's the world's highest, now most complex tax.
They're bringing in more and more things to sort of make it more palatable.
And that's just creating loopholes and it's creating complexity.
And lawyers and accountants love complexity because they'll get to drive loopholes through that and they'll get their clients through it, right?