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Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children(www.theguardian.com)

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Aux@lemmy.world
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You can’t tax wealth.

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charlytune@mander.xyz
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Wut?

I mean I can’t, you’re right, but the government and HMRC can. If the government actually wanted to.

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Aux@lemmy.world
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Taxing wealth doesn’t work and never did. We have a few thousand years of experience with that.

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Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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Groan. Western countries have at times used taxes on wealth to enable massive infrastructure development. Straight after WW1 and WW2 almost all Western countries introduced “profit” taxes of 80-90% and increased taxes on the wealthy. It was the only way the UK, for instance, could rebuild after the war and why we have an NHS and used to have a great welfare state.

I don’t actually believe we should tax the excessively wealthy. I think we should take what they’ve stolen over the centuries back into common democratic ownership.

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