My allegiance is to democracy
References (in rough order of appearance)
Barry's Economics, "The Wealth Tax Debate Is A Trap" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luCGP5pKjw
Trevor Noah, billionaire wealth monologue
Mr Beast / Jimmy Donaldson, Wall Street Journal interview
Elon Musk buying Twitter for $44bn (2022), Tesla stock as collateral
The $1 salary club, and Jeff Bezos's $81,840 salary / Rotterdam bridge — Amazon proxy filings and general reporting
Gabriel Zucman, "A blueprint for a coordinated minimum effective taxation standard for ultra-high-net-worth individuals" (G20, 2024) — https://www.taxobservatory.eu
Wealth Tax Commission, "A Wealth Tax for the UK" (Advani, Chamberlain, Summers, 2020) — https://www.wealthandpolicy.com/wp/WealthTaxFinalReport.pdf
"Should the UK have a wealth tax? The Wealth Tax Commission five years on", LSE (1 Dec 2025) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEhGlqV4zn8
Advani, Hughson & Tarrant (2021), "Revenue and distributional modelling for a UK wealth tax" — https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/156926/1/WRAP-revenue-distributional-modelling-UK-wealth-tax-Advani-2021.pdf
Wealth tax simulator — https://taxsimulator.ukwealth.tax/
Tax Justice UK, "Taxing Wealth" — https://taxjustice.uk/campaign/taxing-wealth/
Tax Justice UK, "How would a wealth tax work in practice?" — https://taxjustice.uk/blog/how-would-a-wealth-tax-work-in-practice/
Oxfam, "Tax the rich" — https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/fight-inequality/tax-the-rich/
Patriotic Millionaires UK, ten tax reforms — https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/latest-news/policy-recommendations-2025
taxpolicy.org.uk, "UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth" — https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/uk-wealth-tax-anti-growth/
Wojciech Kopczuk, "What happens when you tax the rich?", Money & Macro Talks (7 May 2026) — https://www.youtube.com
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State
Anisha Steephen, "The Fiscal State Under Siege: Why People Hate the IRS, and Why You Should Care", Notes on the Crises (12 June 2025) — https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-fiscal-state-under-siege-why-people-hate-the-irs-and-why-you-should-care/
Richard Murphy, videos on taxing wealth — https://youtu.be/vJRdnaJpWl8 and https://youtu.be/CkJxUR9Fc9s
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