{"id":19407,"date":"2013-03-05T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19407"},"modified":"2013-03-05T08:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T08:04:51","slug":"wealth-inequality-is-in-itself-the-reason-to-tax-wealth-and-that-means-more-than-a-mansion-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/05\/wealth-inequality-is-in-itself-the-reason-to-tax-wealth-and-that-means-more-than-a-mansion-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealth inequality is in itself the reason to tax wealth &#8211; and that means more than  a mansion tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is US data, but the message is much the same here, and that's the reason why we need a wealth tax in this country. We cannot afford the social inequality, the\u00a0inequality\u00a0of access and the stress in society that wealth inequality causes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wealth Inequality in America\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPKKQnijnsM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicsinstitute.org\/content\/wealth-inequality-america?utm_source=New+Economics+Email+List&amp;utm_campaign=9c79d5f002-Wealth_inequality_viral_video3_4_2013&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is US data, but the message is much the same here, and that&#8217;s the reason why we need a wealth tax in this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/05\/wealth-inequality-is-in-itself-the-reason-to-tax-wealth-and-that-means-more-than-a-mansion-tax\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}