How do you get from Gary Stevenson to the European Commission?
The wealth tax lobby includes the EC, Open Society Foundations and a UK taxpayer-funded institution
You may remember, last month I wrote about Gary Stevenson, an “inequality economist” who seems to be everywhere at the moment, lecturing us about why the UK needs a wealth tax:
What is the "Patriotic Millionaires" movement?
Last week you may have spotted a bus out and about (or the photos of it on social media), calling for a wealth tax:
In my article I pointed out that Stevenson is a “founding member” of Patriotic Millionaires UK, the British wing of a US movement spearheaded by Abigail Disney.
It’s not the only major movement Stevenson is linked to.
To pan back a bit…
In January Stevenson became co-Director of “Understandable Economics Limited”, a private company incorporated that same month.
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