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🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | We are less than three weeks into Liz Truss's premiership, and we've already seen the biggest set of tax cuts since 1972, and she and Quasi Quarting have crashed the pound. |
0:17.6 | Pretty momentum stay in politics. I'll be joined later by Aaron Bostani to discuss it all on tonight's show. |
0:24.3 | As I promised on Wednesday, I've also got an interview about Vladimir Putin's latest escalation, let's say, of the war in Ukraine, and we're going to be talking about the Labour files. |
0:35.3 | That was a documentary on Al Jazeera last night. |
0:38.3 | We do want to know your comments and your questions throughout the show. |
0:42.8 | Do you think that Quasi Quarting has just crashed the UK economy? |
0:46.8 | Or are we going to see relative stability all while the rich get richer and the poor get nothing? |
0:52.8 | I think those are the two options. We are looking at, I'll be discussing with Aaron, which one we think is the most likely outcome. |
0:59.8 | The economic package announced today by Quasi Quarting wasn't called a budget, wasn't an official budget, but by all accounts, it's more significant than an ordinary one. |
1:09.8 | Quarting explained his government would be going for growth. |
1:13.3 | We need a new approach for a new era, focused on growth. Our aim over the medium term is to reach a trend rate of growth of 2.5%. |
1:25.3 | And our plan, Mr Speaker, is to expand the supply side of the economy through tax incentives and reform. |
1:33.3 | Those tax incentives and reforms involve some pretty gigantic giveaways to the wealthy. |
1:39.3 | The cap on bonuses is out. The proposed increase in corporation tax is scrapped. And there are swinging tax cuts. |
1:47.3 | High tax rates damage Britain's competitiveness. They reduce the incentive to work to invest and to start a business. |
1:56.3 | And the higher the tax, the more ways people seek to avoid them. Or work elsewhere or simply, work less. |
2:03.3 | Rather than putting their time and effort to more creative and productive ends, take the additional rate of income tax. |
2:11.3 | At 45%, it is currently higher than the headline top rate in G7 countries like the US and Italy. |
2:20.3 | And it is even higher than social democracies like Norway. But I'm not going to cut the additional rate of tax today, Mr Speaker. |
2:29.3 | I'm going to abolish it altogether. From April the 23rd, we will have a single higher rate of income tax of 40%. |
2:37.3 | This will simplify the tax system and make Britain more competitive. It will reward enterprise and work. |
2:43.3 | It will incentivise growth. It will benefit the whole economy and the whole country. |
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