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That is what happens when you slash taxation on the richest and allow inequality to explode. Your economies die, and your children don’t eat, and they wear thick jumpers, as I did, in the winter, and they shiver, with their families, in cold homes.

Meanwhile, someone like me will be sitting in a skyscraper, just a 15-minute walk away, betting on it, and that person will become a millionaire.

Then they’ll retire and they’ll buy a luxury apartment, overlooking a marina, and they’ll sit on a huge sofa and eat porridge, and they’ll watch the budget, and they’ll cry.

And in the houses down the road, the mom doesn’t eat, and she hopes the children don’t notice. But they do.

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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"He joined the Patriotic Millionaires and Millionaires for Humanity to campaign for wealth tax..." – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Stevenson_(economist)

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But, I wanted to hate.

Edit: /s

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

No investigation no right to speak

He seems like a cool guy: gives talks on Novara, from a poor background in Ilford, poor accent, rails against capitalism.