Blog 16 - Tax Them and Spend
- A System Analyst
- Oct 2, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 6, 2025
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The UK Chancellor is producing a budget soon. Key to it is how to raise the money to tackle people’s discontent, which is being mis-directed into nationalism and support for the business-class parties who are actually responsible for them not getting what they are promised and expect.
There’s enough wealth in the UK and many countries to provide what people are demanding, but monstrous inequality in who gets it.
Here is our base argument on that - ‘It’s our money in the first place, not theirs’. See that argument in full in The Three Summary Charts, page 4, at the link below.
The wealth inequality is because of the unfairness of our trade deal with the business class, enabled and protected by conservative parties. There’s a lot said about trade deals, but only those involving each national business class. What about our trade deal with our native business class?
The business class claim they deserve the wealth for organising most of the production, work and wealth creation. See the Summary Chart for the response to that. analysis of that, and need it as an incentive. They also say they need it as an incentive. Funny how they claim throwing money at us through wages and public services doesn't work for us but does for them.
We can correct the inequality at source in the work process with stronger collective bargaining and government taxation, and outside it in personal taxation.
The Summary Chart page 3 explains how they get most of the wealth they claim is theirs from the unfair trade deal with us in the work process. See the other link below for the full explanation of that in the full work ‘Us, Politics and The System’, pages 73-113. Following from that, we need widespread unionisation so we can bargain with the business class fairly.
When government taxes them in the work process, like the recent rise in National Insurance in the UK, they say that harms their ability to keep the business running. OK, businesses can’t always be sure of balancing the books or making a reasonable return on investment until the accounts are done. So maybe allow them a bit of leeway there for that.
But then, despite the difficulties they may face in running businesses, it does all end up with the business class as a whole getting that monstrous personal wealth from it all, and the rest not getting what they are promised and expect. So get some more of it back by taxing them fairly. Remember - it's our money in the first place.
Overall - we have a deal with them, at work and through taxes. Make the best deal we can, that they will wear and not refuse to invest. Then do our best with public money we can raise.
And if that’s not enough, and they still take huge wealth – keep saying it’s our money not theirs, and direct criticism away from our progressive governments to where it belongs, with the business class and conservatives. Blame them, publicly, continually. Spread knowledge of the unfair trade deal. Ridicule their claim to patriotism. Shun them in public life.
Link to The Summary Charts, see page 4.
Link to the full ‘Us, Politics and The System’ see pages 73-113
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