{"id":22712,"date":"2013-10-14T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22712"},"modified":"2013-10-14T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:17:17","slug":"the-case-for-wealth-taxation-in-one-graph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/14\/the-case-for-wealth-taxation-in-one-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for wealth taxation in one graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/fm\/2013\/02\/pdf\/fm1302.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">graph is from the IMF Fiscal Monitor <\/a>on tax issued last week:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-09.09.49.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22713\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-10-14 at 09.09.49\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-09.09.49.png\" width=\"467\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-09.09.49.png 584w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-09.09.49-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-09.09.49-474x300.png 474w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-14-at-09.09.49-200x126.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now tell me there is no case for taxing wealth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And, yes, the disparity is not as bad in the UK than some places. So what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is literally a graphic description of an unjust world where all the alternative forms of security that once compensated for a lack of financial wealth \u00a0- like workplace security, occupational pensions, social security, secure household tenure and more - are also being stripped away from those without wealth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This inequality is not just not viable.\u00a0It is deeply dangerous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The time for tax justice has come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph is from the IMF Fiscal Monitor on tax issued last week: Now tell me there is no case for taxing wealth. And, yes,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/14\/the-case-for-wealth-taxation-in-one-graph\/\"><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":[97,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice","category-wealth-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22712","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=22712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}