• charlytune@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    We need more wealth taxes, increased public spending, and wage increases for the public sector and the lowest paid jobs. And we really need to be putting serious effort into introducing some kind of universal income. That’s how you share wealth.

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        1 year ago

        Wut?

        I mean I can’t, you’re right, but the government and HMRC can. If the government actually wanted to.

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          1 year ago

          Taxing wealth doesn’t work and never did. We have a few thousand years of experience with that.

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            1 year ago

            Groan. Western countries have at times used taxes on wealth to enable massive infrastructure development. Straight after WW1 and WW2 almost all Western countries introduced “profit” taxes of 80-90% and increased taxes on the wealthy. It was the only way the UK, for instance, could rebuild after the war and why we have an NHS and used to have a great welfare state.

            I don’t actually believe we should tax the excessively wealthy. I think we should take what they’ve stolen over the centuries back into common democratic ownership.

            • Aux@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              UK didn’t have wealth taxes post war. Because wealth taxes don’t work. Off you go back to school.