{"id":71511,"date":"2023-08-27T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71511"},"modified":"2023-08-27T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:28:35","slug":"on-the-need-for-taxes-on-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/08\/27\/on-the-need-for-taxes-on-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"On the need for taxes on wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did this interview on LBC this afternoon:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018We want to actually collect money.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Political economist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RichardJMurphy<\/a> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SangitaMyska?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SangitaMyska<\/a> how Labour should raise tax funds, \u2018all from the wealthiest\u2019 \u2013 as Rachel Reeves pledges to scrap the Wealth Tax. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hQYXuIw5gj\">pic.twitter.com\/hQYXuIw5gj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LBC (@LBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBC\/status\/1695806812979691998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It could have gone better: the fixation is what is not possible or undesirable rather than with what can be done.<\/p>\n<p>I will be working on starting my series on this issue this week, if possible,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did this interview on LBC this afternoon: \u2018We want to actually collect money.\u2019 Political economist @RichardJMurphy tells @SangitaMyska how Labour should raise tax funds,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/08\/27\/on-the-need-for-taxes-on-wealth\/\"><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":[35,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511","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=71511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71513,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71511\/revisions\/71513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}