From income to home ownership and public services, everybody is disgruntled – but for different reasons, says economist Jonathan Swarbrick

Thought this was interesting and balanced, while also showing why things are so difficult to fix right now: everyone has a different, valid problem.

EDIT: Also, before you all get angry at me, the writer’s answer is: basically yes, with caveats.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Dunno, the main takeaway for me was “ideally we’d do a wealth tax, but we can’t enforce it and we have no ideas.”

    But we absolutely can enforce it (i.e. close tax havens, close open loopholes, tax dividends above a certain threshold), we just don’t