{"id":66585,"date":"2023-01-31T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=66585"},"modified":"2023-01-31T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T08:16:07","slug":"if-were-to-save-the-planet-we-have-to-tax-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/31\/if-were-to-save-the-planet-we-have-to-tax-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"If we&#8217;re to save the planet we have to tax the rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/47db95b4-ce9f-42c7-8b37-86483c85267a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the FT this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-08.13.21-550x287.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-08.13.21-550x287.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-08.13.21-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-08.13.21-600x313.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-08.13.21.png 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The message is simple: if we are to save the planet we have to tax the rich because they massively over-consume. It's as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>And remember that one of the reasons for tax is to correct market failure. This is a massive market failure, and tax has to play a part in correcting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the FT this morning: The message is simple: if we are to save the planet we have to tax the rich because they massively<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/01\/31\/if-were-to-save-the-planet-we-have-to-tax-the-rich\/\"><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":[108,16,74,106,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-ethics","category-green-new-deal","category-politics","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66585","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=66585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}