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What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little | Aditya Chakrabortty (www.theguardian.com)

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Saw someone the other day saying Labour is the only party that will acknowledge that trade offs exist, but also that they keep picking the side of the trade off guaranteed to annoy their voters, which seemed like a pithy summary of politics.

EDIT: I see we're once again failing the simple reading comprehension test.

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[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

The author of the article admits that "doing something about it requires deep-rooted changes" and, like him, I suspect a lone wealth tax won't be enough.

So why is he picking on the Greens about it when a wealth tax is just one part of their much broader economic agenda to tackle inequality? This is either lazy journalism or partisan.

That said, it wouldn't hurt the Greens to publicise their whole package more.