'A Wealth Tax Can only Go so Far – How About Preventing People Amassing Riches in the First Place?'

'A wealth tax can only go so far – how about preventing people amassing riches in the first place?'

The debate over a potential wealth tax rumbles on in Big Issue's Letters pages The post ‘A wealth tax can only go so far – how about preventing people amassing riches in the first place?’ appeared first on Big Issue.

It is time for a wealth tax

Tax wealth for a better UK

The majority of the public support a Wealth Tax on the super-rich but the recent programme by Gary Stevenson won’t persuade the doubters.  We know people end up super-rich as much due to good fortune as anything else (such as, just being selfish). We need taxes on the super-rich to share that opportunity. A wealth tax is one option. For example, the Green Party argues that people who have assets of over £10 million should have a hundredth of tha…