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Ryan Bridge: Banning and taxing won't solve the problem
This week the Tony Blair Institute warned Andy Burnham that you can't tax your way to prosperity.
Some of our politicians could use a similar lecture.
We have parties wanting new taxes to fund what is basically a Universal Basic Income, even though AI hasn't yet stolen the number of jobs they claimed it would.
A Wall Street Journal piece this morning talks about exactly this point – even big tech seems to be u-turning on the job doomsday scenario.
We had the Greens yesterday come out with a policy that was not serious, but potentially destructive to our standard of living.
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