{"id":74717,"date":"2024-03-22T07:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74717"},"modified":"2024-03-22T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T07:24:51","slug":"other-options-are-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/22\/other-options-are-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Other options are available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can access X or Twitter, as most of us still think of it, then this is worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>Green Party peer Jenny Jones takes apart this government's track record and useless recent budget in a quietly passionate speech that contrasts with the normal hyperbole that we have to endure.<\/p>\n<p>I don't quite agree with her on wealth taxes, as should be known by now. I would instead tax income from wealth and gains more. But this is a point of detail. It is being said that other options are available. And that is vital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jenny Jones from the Green Party knocking the top off the rice pudding here. Whatever your political views are she just nailed the state of this country and what\u2019s wrong with it in 5 minutes.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vY77RTbx5Y\">pic.twitter.com\/vY77RTbx5Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2022 dave ellis \u2022 (@fullback03) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fullback03\/status\/1770353941319922070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can access X or Twitter, as most of us still think of it, then this is worth watching. Green Party peer Jenny Jones<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/22\/other-options-are-available\/\"><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":[35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74717","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=74717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74719,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74717\/revisions\/74719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}