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8118d5f2 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 The "Tax Extreme Wealth" movement & how it plays into the agendas of the Right

The well-funded Right is extremely well organised and strategic, which is why the dominant ideology reflects their preferences

In contrast, the Left is poorly funded, divided & appears incapable of breaking free from the fictions that the Right uses

In this case, the Left is pursuing a cause that looks 'progressive’, but in fact advances the causes of the Right

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61142

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7cb9c348 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bd15ffd6 

Agreed - the centre-left - spectacularly the UK Labour Party now - makes a big mistake in accepting the right-wig framing of 'tax and spend'.

The most effective way to present taxation reform is around 'making tax fair' - rather than approaches such as 'we need the money for services' (which as you say is not strictly true - tax is only needed if services create inflationary pressures - they may not if, say, spending on health, education, etc, enhance productivity).

Which leads to the second term of 'tax and spend'.  Government 'spending' on public services is NOT like personal or household, or indeed businesses' spending - it is in fact more like investment, and should be presented as such - pretty much everybody agrees it is a GOOD THING, as Sellar and Yeatman might say - it always creates economic activity, future tax income, general well-being.

Most importantly of all, though, supposedly 'impartial' journalists (eg. working for the BBC) need to stop using, and start challenging right-wing framing like 'tax and spend government'.