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Jun 15 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
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The population of the #USA is 332,915,073, & it has around 790 (0.00023%) billionaires. 🇺🇸

The #UK population is 68,580,309, & it has around 177 (0.00026%) billionaires. 🇬🇧

#ThePeopleVsTheOnePercent #WealthTaxNow
Estimates suggest that a progressive UK net #WealthTax that only taxes the top 1% wealthiest households - those with net wealth above £3.4 million - would raise roughly £70-130 billion a year.

gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/3381…
Introducing a #WealthTax for UK households with net wealth above £3.4million (the top 1%) taxed at a marginal rate of 1%, above £5.7million (the top 0.5%) at a marginal rate of 5%, & above £18.2million (the top 0.1%) at a marginal rate of 10%, would raise £70-130 billion a year.
A new net #WealthTax on the wealthiest 1% of UK households could redistribute wealth, galvanise public support, & generate huge revenues for the government, raising £70bn to £130bn a year – enough to fund a high-quality universal care service & the #NHS.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#WealthTax 🤔

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“Who says what in which channel to whom with what effect?" Harold Lasswell, 1948.

“The study of transitivity is concerned with how actions are represented; what kind of actions appear in a text, who does them, & to whom they are done - who does what to whom?” - Sara Mills, 1995.
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Any process/event involves: participants; the process itself; & the circumstances. In headlines, the 'agent' is sometimes emphasised, & sometimes deleted, creating a passive or an active process, thus framing the focus & fault/cause/blame in specific ways.

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