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Top Comments (10)
My fear has shifted from a wealth tax never being introduced to it being set up to fail on purpose — designed so badly it’s easy to attack and guaranteed to flop, just so they can say they ‘tried’ while protecting the wealthy. If they do it, it needs to be done correctly — fair, workable, and genuinely targeting extreme wealth. Let’s hope they get it right.
Its crazy even how much has changed in the last 3 months as you been away
"tax wealth, not work" is such a good line. say that some more
I've lived in America, UK, and now Germany, and the same s**t is indeed happening everywhere, as far as I've seen! Your message is needed everywhere. Welcome back! I'm excited to keep fighting. Ps. I want one of those t shirts 😂
One thing that needs to be pushed harder: fixing inequality isn’t about punishing anyone, it’s about investing in society. Funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure isn’t just redistribution, it creates jobs, stability, and a future people can believe in. If we want broader support, the message has to stay clear: fair taxation means everyone pulls their weight. It’s not envy, it’s basic fairness.
For housing, introduce a bill to stop speculation (domestic and ban foreign ownership) and prevent corporates from buying up family homes.
The establishment is gradually realising that the choice is either taxes or pitchforks.
This is so much bigger now than just the UK, but fixing the UK would get the ball rolling everywhere else. Fixing the UK might just start fixing the world.
Another idea for a tax proposal besides wealth tax I think may help address the ever rising inequality between the working people and the wealthy people would be to rewrite the tax code for corporation tax: 1. To stop multinational mega corporations who employ people in our country, have customers in our country and make profit in our country from conveniently offshoring that profit to a place where corporation tax is lower (this is important to make point 2 work better, as well as make things fairer for small local businesses against the big businesses) and 2. Radically increase the rate of corporation tax, but offer a tax break depending on how much employees get paid (whether we use lowest employee / contractor pay or median pay or mean pay or whether to use pay per hour or annual income of employees is a detail to be figured out to make sure this idea isn’t easily gamed by a business that wants to dodge tax) as this means that a company is financially incentivised to pay more to employees and contractors (I.e. working people) than focusing on minimising pay in order to maximise profits (which is forced upon businesses with shareholders as a legal requirement by the shareholders) as now the way to maximise return for investors may require increasing pay to some higher optimal level to stay profitable while reducing their new, higher, corporation tax bill, so the portion of money made by the company going to shareholders (I.e the wealthy people) will be driven down somewhat. This proposal shouldn’t be thought of as an alternative to wealth tax, but in conjunction with wealth tax instead.
MP suggestion , Richard burgon or Clive Lewis?
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Top Comments (10)
My fear has shifted from a wealth tax never being introduced to it being set up to fail on purpose — designed so badly it’s easy to attack and guaranteed to flop, just so they can say they ‘tried’ while protecting the wealthy. If they do it, it needs to be done correctly — fair, workable, and genuinely targeting extreme wealth. Let’s hope they get it right.
Its crazy even how much has changed in the last 3 months as you been away
"tax wealth, not work" is such a good line. say that some more
I've lived in America, UK, and now Germany, and the same s**t is indeed happening everywhere, as far as I've seen! Your message is needed everywhere. Welcome back! I'm excited to keep fighting. Ps. I want one of those t shirts 😂
One thing that needs to be pushed harder: fixing inequality isn’t about punishing anyone, it’s about investing in society. Funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure isn’t just redistribution, it creates jobs, stability, and a future people can believe in. If we want broader support, the message has to stay clear: fair taxation means everyone pulls their weight. It’s not envy, it’s basic fairness.
For housing, introduce a bill to stop speculation (domestic and ban foreign ownership) and prevent corporates from buying up family homes.
The establishment is gradually realising that the choice is either taxes or pitchforks.
This is so much bigger now than just the UK, but fixing the UK would get the ball rolling everywhere else. Fixing the UK might just start fixing the world.
Another idea for a tax proposal besides wealth tax I think may help address the ever rising inequality between the working people and the wealthy people would be to rewrite the tax code for corporation tax: 1. To stop multinational mega corporations who employ people in our country, have customers in our country and make profit in our country from conveniently offshoring that profit to a place where corporation tax is lower (this is important to make point 2 work better, as well as make things fairer for small local businesses against the big businesses) and 2. Radically increase the rate of corporation tax, but offer a tax break depending on how much employees get paid (whether we use lowest employee / contractor pay or median pay or mean pay or whether to use pay per hour or annual income of employees is a detail to be figured out to make sure this idea isn’t easily gamed by a business that wants to dodge tax) as this means that a company is financially incentivised to pay more to employees and contractors (I.e. working people) than focusing on minimising pay in order to maximise profits (which is forced upon businesses with shareholders as a legal requirement by the shareholders) as now the way to maximise return for investors may require increasing pay to some higher optimal level to stay profitable while reducing their new, higher, corporation tax bill, so the portion of money made by the company going to shareholders (I.e the wealthy people) will be driven down somewhat. This proposal shouldn’t be thought of as an alternative to wealth tax, but in conjunction with wealth tax instead.
MP suggestion , Richard burgon or Clive Lewis?