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UK Budget – The End of Democracy?

2025-11-23 Education
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UK Budget Fallout: Why Tax Hikes Target Everyone But the Rich and the Erosion of British Democracy

Understand the core reason the upcoming UK Budget forces tax increases on the public and discover how concentrated wealth distribution controls political power, overriding voter mandates.

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  • The budget will usher in broad tax rises because significant post-COVID wealth transfer has left the government indebted heavily to the rich.
  • This financial dependency compels the government to appease financial markets, even if it violates campaign promises not to raise income tax or VAT.
  • Refusing to implement a wealth tax guarantees that ordinary workers must be squeezed further to pay interest owed to asset holders.
  • Orientation: This analysis breaks down the debt dynamics that dictate current fiscal policy, explains why elites guard against wealth redistribution, and details the resulting erosion of democratic choice. Use this knowledge to understand your rising financial burden and the necessity of unified political action.

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Gary's back for one episode only. Here's what the UK Budget next week means for you, the economy and democracy. GET THE TRADING GAME – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455809/the-trading-game-by-stevenson-gary/9781802062731 ––––––––––– Chapters 00:00 Intro 1:04 Raising taxes 04:30 UK government debt situation 09:12 Transfer of wealth to rich 13:22 Why aren’t they taxing the rich? 18:40 The elites don’t care 26:00 The death of democracy 28:32 What do you do? 31:15 Hope 33:08 Know your history 36:41 Help me get to #1 ––––––––––– MERCH – https://shop.garyseconomics.org/ MAKE A DONATION TO OUR CAMPAIGN – https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00 SUPPORT US ON PATREON – https://patreon.com/garyseconomics JOIN GARY'S MAILING LIST – https://subscribepage.io/garyseconomics ––––––––––– Follow Gary on other channels: LINKEDIN – https://www.linkedin.com/company/garyseconomics SPOTIFY – https://open.spotify.com/show/2807p01KIe4RRFjRTB5o25 INSTAGRAM – https://www.instagram.com/garyseconomics TIKTOK – https://www.tiktok.com/@garyseconomics BLUESKY – https://bsky.app/profile/garyseconomics.bsky.social X – https://twitter.com/garyseconomics FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/garyseconomics DISCORD – https://discord.gg/vqME6WsPd7 WEBSITE – https://www.garyseconomics.org

Top Comments (10)

@VPX_7 2025-11-23

All I wish for Christmas is for Gary to eat one of those digestives.

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@Alex-cw3rz 2025-11-23

I find it annoying that we bailed out the finanical market in 2008 and now we are subserviant to them, rather than them working for us.

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@igimoon9993 2025-11-23

I am 66 and now working harder than ever with no sight of retirement. Is this the new assisted dying?

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@chrish1657 2025-11-23

"none of which will target the very rich" Tells you exactly who "our politicians" work for

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@joehlloyd 2025-11-23

It's more like having cancer and your doctor knows you have cancer but is being paid by the owner of the hospital to pretend cancer doesn't exist.

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@Shinownd 2025-11-23

Spoke to someone who moved from London to the middle east, and they were explaining to me that because they lived in the middle east now, they no longer had to pay taxes on their rental properties. That loophole needs to be closed. If you want to buy property in the UK and rent it, you need to be taxed appropriately. So much of the UK is being priced out of its own property market.

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@FirstLast-le6io 2025-11-23

The game of monopoly analogy is CRUCIAL. If you own the properties which are most landed on, you win the game. Full. Stop. If you own the assets which others HAVE to pay you for (houses etc) you will bankrupt every other player and you will bankrupt the bank (the government). When the most landed on assets are owned by the same people, that's a monopoly in the asset markets. Governments are supposed to break monopolies by disincentivizing large shares of ownership of assets.

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@TinaRodwell 2025-11-24

Very sad this is your last one for this year. A breath of fresh air in a toxic world Thank you Gary ❤

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@PlinkButImAnEditor 2025-12-08

Came here from a Map Men episode :)

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@runintoabrickwall3342 2025-11-25

It’s the George Carlin sketch “It's a big club, and you ain't in it" famous quote from George Carlin's 2005 stand-up special Life Is Worth Losing

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