The Labour government refuse to acknowledge and deal with the rising tide of inequality in the UK. Will this doom them to fail, or can we get through to them?
The Labour government refuse to acknowledge and deal with the rising tide of inequality in the UK. Will this doom them to fail, or can we get through to them?
Obviously not true. Like you say, the problems he brings up are very real yet he has presented one main solution. A wealth tax.
Would love to know how you’re supposed to raise awareness about a really important issue without being “populist”.
I’m all for an increased wealth tax, and raising awareness is good, but saying that it would be the simple, complete solution as he implies is misleading. Gary also refuses to engage with the research, talk about specifics, show graphs and explain how wealth inequality is a complex issue in his videos. He simplifies things to the extreme and defines society in terms of he and his audience as the pure, non-elite people on one side and all economists and the corrupt elite on the other. This, along with the way he presents himself is why I believe that unfortunately his style is somewhat similar to that of populists on the right, even if their aims are very very different. I’ll provide some sources for high quality critique on Gary’s work as a reply to the other comment.
There is none now, so any wealth tax would be an increase.
You’re right, apologies, I should have just said a wealth tax, I was also thinking about increased income taxes for high brackets too, so got the two mixed up.