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  1. Journalist #TimStanley on #bbcqt yesterday said he didn't want tax to increase because "it's my money"

    This is such a miserable attitude. In some kind of state-of-nature if I pay you to build me a wall I guess you can consider that "your money". You've directly exchanged labour for cash.

    But in sophisticated modern economies is that tenable? Surely we're all so interdependent & our earnings are so conditional on various public & private facilitators that we are obliged to share wealth