Thread by @SteB777

"Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’"

Just let this sink in. Poverty, is a choice the rich impose on the world.

1/🧵theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/…

Modern shyster politicians (manipulative gaslighters), like the UK PM, Keir Starmer, convince the public with lies, that the vulnerable, such as the sick and disabled have to suffer cuts, because there is no money. What a massive lie.
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The very rich pay a fraction of the tax they used to pay. In the 1950s and 1960s, the top tax rate in both the US and the UK, was 95%. Now, billionaires often pay a lower percentage in tax, than nurses. How did this come about?
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I never remember, there being the public demanding that the very rich, should pay much less tax. It's just that once in power, our corrupt politicians, gift these tax cuts to the very rich, presumably because they get rewarded for doing that for them.
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This is how utterly corrupt our politicians are. They get elected by the people, but then once in office they only serve the very rich, and corporate interests.

They laughably claim, with lies, that they are doing this for the people. To make us prosperous.
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Yet the wealth of the very rich skyrockets, whilst costs of living, leave ordinary people, with less and less. In whose name is this happening?

Where does all this extra money people have to pay for necessities go? Well, into the coffers of the very rich.
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"A survey by Oxfam found that 86% of people supported paying for public services by “closing loopholes” that allow wealthy individuals and large corporations to use tax havens."

This clearly shows governments acting against the wishes of the people.

7/theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/…

Keir Starmer wants the public to believe, that he is forced to massively slash the already meagre benefits for the sick and disabled, because he has no other choice. But strangely, he chooses not to tax the very wealthy? Why? Because he's as bent as a nine bob note.
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What this illustrates is how our politicians lie to the public, and gaslight them, into falsely believing the cuts to our public services are out of necessity. Simply so the very rich, have to pay very little tax.
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What, do the very rich, do with this vast wealth they accumulate?

Well they use it to buy our politicians, so the super rich, can get even richer, and pay off our crooked politicians, for their favours for them. It is viciously circular.

Why do we let them get away with it?
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