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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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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 16 hours ago

You can argue what you perceive the title to say all you want but I think the downvotes speak for themselves. Both to the post and your comments (and I haven't downvoted your comments, only the post).

Without knowing the ins and outs of every author's politics it's impossible to judge their headline in the context that you're trying to give. Are you perhaps Aditya? Is that why you're defending this piece so much within the comments?

When you result to personal attacks that a headline is somehow upsetting me because I'm being oversensitive it's perhaps time to do some reflection on the point you're actually trying to get across. I've had a lovely day in the snow and just got home from a walk, I'm not upset.

This is just bad journalism that is being rejected by the community, a generally very left wing community.