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Guest says Gary Stevenson lacks seriousness on wealth tax

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published September 15, 2026 · The Rest Is Politics · "[Gary Stevenson] has never thought about how a wealth tax works"
Guest says Gary Stevenson lacks seriousness on wealth tax
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"[Gary Stevenson] has never thought about how a wealth tax works"

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"Stevenson said I don't think is a serious figure because of these ridiculous uh apocalyptic claims that he makes because he's never thought about how wealth tax would work. I don't know if he did this to you, but when he interviewed me, he said on about six occasions that he was one of the leading inequality economists in the world."

A guest on The Rest Is Politics says Gary Stevenson’s warnings about the UK becoming much poorer without a wealth tax are “apocalyptic” and argues the policy he advocates would raise too little to match the scale of the problem. The guest also claims Stevenson repeatedly described himself as “one of the leading inequality economists in the world” when interviewing them.

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