Gary Stevenson: Tax the rich to fix our economy

The UK’s sorry state of affairs when it comes to water and railways is both a massive problem and an opportunity for the incoming government. Water companies are teetering on the brink of collapse and it feels inevitable that they will soon fall back in to public ownership. But how can we pay for renationalised services?

Cat Hobbs from We Own It talks to Nish and Coco about the history of privatisation and the opportunities that renationalised services present to the UK.

Later, economist and activist Gary Stevenson explores how the public can rewrite the narrative on taxation - starting with a 1% tax on people with wealth of over £10,000,000. But why stop there? Coco and Nish ask about other potential boons to the state budget.


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Guest:
Cat Hobbs, Director of We Own It
Gary Stevenson, the Activist and Economist behind Gary’s Economics


CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:59 - Cat Hobbs on Renationalisation
20:22 - Gary Stevenson


Useful links:

https://weownit.org.uk/
https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/


Video credits:
BBC
ITV
Labour Party
Sky News


Image Credits:
Associated Press

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