{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6256a2f65777950013fadde6/6a47bd952d7a15a979970053?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A Wealth Tax Won’t Work the Way You Think","description":"<p>My allegiance is to democracy</p><p><br></p><p>References (in rough order of appearance)</p><p>Barry's Economics, \"The Wealth Tax Debate Is A Trap\" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luCGP5pKjw</p><p>Trevor Noah, billionaire wealth monologue</p><p>Mr Beast / Jimmy Donaldson, Wall Street Journal interview</p><p>Elon Musk buying Twitter for $44bn (2022), Tesla stock as collateral</p><p>The $1 salary club, and Jeff Bezos's $81,840 salary / Rotterdam bridge — Amazon proxy filings and general reporting</p><p>Gabriel Zucman, \"A blueprint for a coordinated minimum effective taxation standard for ultra-high-net-worth individuals\" (G20, 2024) — https://www.taxobservatory.eu</p><p>Wealth Tax Commission, \"A Wealth Tax for the UK\" (Advani, Chamberlain, Summers, 2020) — https://www.wealthandpolicy.com/wp/WealthTaxFinalReport.pdf</p><p>\"Should the UK have a wealth tax? The Wealth Tax Commission five years on\", LSE (1 Dec 2025) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEhGlqV4zn8</p><p>Advani, Hughson &amp; Tarrant (2021), \"Revenue and distributional modelling for a UK wealth tax\" — https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/156926/1/WRAP-revenue-distributional-modelling-UK-wealth-tax-Advani-2021.pdf</p><p>Wealth tax simulator — https://taxsimulator.ukwealth.tax/</p><p>Tax Justice UK, \"Taxing Wealth\" — https://taxjustice.uk/campaign/taxing-wealth/</p><p>Tax Justice UK, \"How would a wealth tax work in practice?\" — https://taxjustice.uk/blog/how-would-a-wealth-tax-work-in-practice/</p><p>Oxfam, \"Tax the rich\" — https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/fight-inequality/tax-the-rich/</p><p>Patriotic Millionaires UK, ten tax reforms — https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/latest-news/policy-recommendations-2025</p><p>taxpolicy.org.uk, \"UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth\" — https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/uk-wealth-tax-anti-growth/</p><p>Wojciech Kopczuk, \"What happens when you tax the rich?\", Money &amp; Macro Talks (7 May 2026) — https://www.youtube.com</p><p>Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)</p><p>James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State</p><p>Anisha Steephen, \"The Fiscal State Under Siege: Why People Hate the IRS, and Why You Should Care\", Notes on the Crises (12 June 2025) — https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-state-under-siege-why-people-hate-the-irs-and-why-you-should-care/</p><p>Richard Murphy, videos on taxing wealth — https://youtu.be/vJRdnaJpWl8 and https://youtu.be/CkJxUR9Fc9s</p><p><br></p><p>Intro music license:</p><p>Music: Bensound.com/royalty-free-music</p><p>License code: KEJVC6SJTY1FKMKH</p><p>Artist: : Benjamin Lazzarus</p>","author_name":"Unlearning Economics"}