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You will know as well as I do that
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wealth taxes have been tried in a number
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of countries. Only Switzerland has stuck
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with it. I mean, they've got no capital
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But most countries have abandoned them
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because they they don't bring in that
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much revenue. What makes you think it
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would be different here? Fiona, we did
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it here. We did it here. We did it here
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in the ' 50s, the 60s, the 70s, and
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people like my dad, people like my
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security, have pensions, have
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retirements, go on holidays. We did it
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here. We did it here. And we're losing
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that now because we're not taxing the
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ordinary families are losing the ability
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