
S01-EP09 - Simon Szreter on conspiracy theories, trust in politics & solutions
TALKING POLITICS
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The History of Taxation
For four decades, both the UK and America had extremely high levels of progressive taxation. In particular, in the region of 90 % for highest earnings and incomes. This whole period is called the golden age. The idea that high taxes are a sort of an anathema, and that if you're talking about high taxes, you must be some kind of communist is, i think, ludicrous.
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