Should Starmer Introduce a Wealth Tax?

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With many people suggesting the funds needed to increase the defence budget should be raised with a wealth tax, this video explain exactly what a wealth tax is? How would it work? And why don’t Labour seem all that interested in implementing it?

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SOURCES

Wealth Tax Commission Report
https://www.wealthandpolicy.com/wp/We...

Tax Justice on a Wealth Tax
https://taxjustice.uk/blog/mps-are-de...

Lords Library on Defence Spending
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/uk...

Scale of Inequality in the UK
https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-ec...

Polling on Support for Wealth Tax
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/article...