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The tax-avoiding Tory-supporting billionaire-owned Mail ALWAYS blames the poor.
While the top 10% of earners pay 53% of all INCOME tax (£208bn of £393bn), the HMRC collected £714.8bn in taxes in 2021/22, & the UK's top 10% own 43% of ALL wealth, the bottom 50% just 9%.
The tax-avoiding Tory-supporting billionaire-owned Mail ALWAYS blames the poor.
While the top 10% of earners pay 53% of all INCOME tax (£208bn of £393bn), the HMRC collected £714.8bn in taxes in 2021/22, & the UK's top 10% own 43% of ALL wealth, the bottom 50% just 9%.
A better way to 'get tough on welfare spending' would be to get tough on the CAUSES of welfare spending. 75% of working-age benefits are spent on: income top-ups for low-paid workers; benefits to help pay rent; & disability, sickness & incapacity benefits.
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1577262730977120256?s=20&t=WmRKfINC30jDEnLYp6d6ow
You wouldn't know it from the billionaire-owned "news" media, but the UK Govt spends significantly LESS than the EU average on economic affairs, education, general public services, recreation facilities, & public protection.
The UK is now one of THE most unequal OECD societies.
The UK is now one of THE most unequal OECD societies.
In the UK, the wealth of the top 1% of households is more than 230 times that of the poorest 10%.
Since 2009, the collective wealth of Britain's already wealthy richest 1,000 individuals has increased by HALF A TRILLION POUNDS, while our #NHS has been systematically destroyed.
Since 2009, the collective wealth of Britain's already wealthy richest 1,000 individuals has increased by HALF A TRILLION POUNDS, while our #NHS has been systematically destroyed.
A typical nurse would have to work “over 20,000 years” in order to match Sunak’s vast wealth.
"Rather than announce a new wave of cuts and #austerity, wouldn’t it be fairer for the prime minister to introduce wealth taxes on the very richest in our society?" - Richard Burgon.
"Rather than announce a new wave of cuts and #austerity, wouldn’t it be fairer for the prime minister to introduce wealth taxes on the very richest in our society?" - Richard Burgon.
Income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are VERY rich, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia.
Globally, just TEN individuals have as much wealth as earth's poorest 3 BILLION people.
Globally, just TEN individuals have as much wealth as earth's poorest 3 BILLION people.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1570832839318605824?s=20&t=WmRKfINC30jDEnLYp6d6ow
A tax of just 5% on the world’s multimillionaires & billionaires could raise $1.7 TRILLION (an almost unimaginable amount) a year - enough to lift TWO BILLION people out of poverty, & fund a global plan to end hunger.
#EnoughIsEnough #TaxTheRich
mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
#EnoughIsEnough #TaxTheRich
mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
The multiple crises that billions of people face today, including the #CostOfLivingCrisis & the #ClimateCrisis, all have one root cause: GREED.
The richest global 1% pocketed two-thirds of ALL new wealth ($26 TRILLION) created since the pandemic began.
The solution? #TaxTheRich
The richest global 1% pocketed two-thirds of ALL new wealth ($26 TRILLION) created since the pandemic began.
The solution? #TaxTheRich
The "general recipe for creating highly satisfied citizens: ensure that state institutions are of high quality, non-corrupt, able to deliver what they promise, & generous in taking care of citizens in various adversities".
The opposite of Britain then.🇬🇧
The opposite of Britain then.🇬🇧
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1382378100508532741?s=20&t=WmRKfINC30jDEnLYp6d6ow
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