Thanks to @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social for asking about completing the job of capital gains tax reform and action towards introducing a wealth tax on the super rich.
Just 2 of 10 policies we're campaigning on with @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social https://patrioticmillionaires.pulse.ly/0zbgkec7km
“When big business ducks taxes, women pick up the tab.”
Financial Fortune Media article highlighting how corporate tax abuse deepens gender inequality and referencing research from the @taxjustice.net.
Read the piece 👇
www.financialfortunemedia.com/when-big-bus...
When are people gonna learn you can’t end wars, you can only start them.
When are people gonna learn you can’t end wars, you can only start them.
Barely zone 2, but the sweetest stage is to be found at the Ivy House pub in Nunhead
Reform UK have watered down their plans to “challenge every single tenet” of economic policy.
So what does Reform’s economic platform look like now? This week we digest what we know so far – and what happens when rhetoric meets the realities of governing: www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/r...
BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.
A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.
I think it’s possible! I’ve been heartened to see a lot of discussion amongst LDs on the harms of extreme wealth, exploring what a liberal response to these harms could look like.
This blog post outlines the social indicator we’re collectively developing: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
but would Lab have held onto the mayorality in may?
Barmy
If you’re a fan on being bloody furious, Labour MP Karl Turner, on #Radio4Today at 7.10, is worth a bloody listen.
Some welcome rebuttal here from @richardburgon.bsky.social
It’s hard to imagine that same interview taking quite the same line if it were held today. We’re clearly in the market for solutions to mitigate the harms of extreme wealth, not cheap sneers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If ever there was a time to take the day off for KB, it would have been today.
Thinking of her
how the turns have tabled
📢 Our new report, Funding Scotland’s Future: Tax Reform for a Just Transition, has made the front page of @scotsman.com.
It sets out credible, progressive reforms that could raise £2.3bn a year, support climate goals, and protect those on lower incomes.
⬇️ www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...
🎥 BIG MONEY IS CORRUPTING OUR POLITICS 🎥
UK politics has a big money problem 💷
The super-rich use money to buy honours, influence and access to power. It erodes trust in our politics and undermines our democracy.
The UK needs a cap on donations to end big money in our politics.
More below ⤵️
This. The age limit is not the thing! Put out the raging fire in your home swiftly or flee all together, don't just banish the kids to the basement.
Sky above the allotment today is whispering ‘spring’
It's clear who Reform UK stand for - and it's not workers.
They seek to sow division, while committing to throw our hard-won rights on the scrapheap.
labourunions.org.uk/stop-reform/
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Capital taxation amounts to just over 2% of GDP [in the US]. These numbers will have to go much higher, since people will no longer have wages to live on and will rely more heavily on government largesse."
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
Doesn't matter who commissions a poll as long as the company is credible, which this one is.
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
"It is not simply about who gains access, but how the system allows well-resourced actors to exert disproportionate influence over policy decisions."
A powerful intervention from @patmillsuk.bsky.social on why we need to stop the super-rich from buying access to power.
Read the full piece ⤵️
"If “one person, one vote” is to mean anything, we can no longer ignore how concentrated wealth can distort political influence." - Phil White, PMUK
https://lbc.pulse.ly/kneyuhnead
the state of this
our little teams world domination continues at pace
