Gary Stevenson’s wealth tax vs Dan Neidle’s land value tax: the difference explained

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Gary Stevenson has been dismantling “childish” arguments against a wealth tax for years on YouTube. His Channel 4 documentary, How to Get Filthy Rich, packaged his arguments as a long-form show for a mainstream audience. Journalists focused on his clash with tax lawyer Dan Neidle, who called Gary’s annual wealth tax proposal “populist claptrap.” The sensationalism around the debate, however, belies a category error: a wealth tax and a land value tax target completely different things, and both can co-exist. Comparing acres and Apple In their discussion, Neidle accused Stevenson of being “unable to separate [his] emotional reaction to inequality with…

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