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Decisions to tax online gambling firms and scrap the cruel two child benefit caps are long overdue wins for campaigners but the failure to introduce wealth taxes is a historic missed opportunity and political own goal which begs the question: whose side is this govt really on?

Instead, this patchwork of tax changes leave the fortunes of the very richest almost entirely untouched, while millions of ordinary people will have to pay more as a result of freezing income tax thresholds.

Bringing in proper wealth taxes could have unlocked tens of billions for the investment in schools, hospitals, jobs and climate action we desperately need.

We are living through a devastating climate crisis, as well as suffering from extortionate housing costs whilst bills just keep rising.

This makes us the first generation set to be poorer than our parents - all while the super-rich hoard more wealth than ever before.

This Government is stumbling from one half-measure Budget to the next.

Meanwhile, young people are desperate for a bold alternative to the economic status quo.

But that's nowhere to be seen.

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* #Budget2025 !

BREAKING: We're outside Parliament with cross-party MPs ahead of #Budget2026 to ask - Rachel Reeves, why won't you tax their wealth?

If this govt refuses to tax the super-rich tomorrow they are making a huge mistake.

we need your support. - GND Rising All of the transformative work our movement does is supercharged by support from people like you - can you give a donation?

Pressure is growing inside and outside of Parliament: it’s time for the super-rich to PAY UP.

With just a week until the Budget, can you help us fuel the fight against billionaires?

Chip in today 👉 www.gndrising.org/campaigns/do...

40 MPs call on Rachel Reeves to tax wealth more - GND Rising This morning, 40 MPs from 8 different parties signed an open letter demanding that Rachel Reeves taxes wealth more in the Budget.  The MP supporters include 21 Labour backbenchers, 4 Greens, SNP, Inde...

🚨BREAKING: 40 MPs have called for @RachelReevesMP to tax wealth more in the Autumn Budget.

The politicians have signed a letter calling for the government to ensure that “those with the broadest shoulders contribute their fair share”.

www.gndrising.org/updates/40-m...

👩‍⚕️👨‍🚒🤵 Doctors, firefighters, even the super-rich themselves can see it… so why can’t Rachel Reeves?

It’s time to tax the super‑rich & invest in our collective future.

Yesterday, we delivered over 700,000 signatures demanding that the govt delivers #TaxJustice at the budget.

Screenshot of an LBC opinion article with headline reading: "Britain needs a National Nature Service - not another failed gamble on the private sector, writes Carla Denyer MP."

Huge numbers of young people are out of work - but this govt simply doesn't have the answers. We need real solutions like a National Nature Service which @gndrising.bsky.social are calling for - to give young people good quality employment while restoring our natural world.

Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour? Two-thirds of voters back measures to tax extreme wealth. We asked young people why they support a wealth tax.

We're not asking for the world.

We just want a fair chance, the same living standards our parents enjoyed and a safe, habitable future.

In @bigissue.com, young people with GNDrising explain why we're demanding wealth taxes on the super-rich at the Budget👇

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

1 week to go until this closes! Apply now: www.gndrising.org/jobs/organis...

zohran mamdani is 34, met his wife on hinge and spent the night before election day in the club

now he's nyc's youngest mayor since 1832

if that isn't youth political power idk what is...

50 families own more wealth than HALF THE POPULATION.

Wealth inequality is out of control. And growing.

At the Budget, the Chancellor could do something about this, make the super-rich PAY UP and get our country back on track.

Your move Rachel.

YouTube video by Byline TV Protesters DEMAND Wealth Tax from Rachel Reeves

Great coverage of our protest demanding wealth taxes on the super-rich by
@bylinetimes.bsky.social.

Check out contributions from our brilliant organisers and MP champions @sianberry.bsky.social and @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social here 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQf...

Come work with us!

We’re looking for a skilled Organiser to grow our movement and deliver powerful campaigns.

If you have strong people skills, an interest in politics, project management experience and a commitment to fighting for justice - apply now👉 www.gndrising.org/jobs/organis...

we need your support. - GND Rising All of the transformative work our movement does is supercharged by support from people like you - can you give a donation?

Momentum behind wealth taxes has never been stronger. To win, we need to scale up our campaigning.

Can you support us to run more actions like this to fight for taxes on the super-rich?

www.gndrising.org/campaigns/do...

If Reeves refuses to fix our unfair tax system and bring in wealth taxes, she locks us into a path of rising inequality, crumbling public services, and climate catastrophe.

And paves the way for a Reform government in 2029.

We can't let that happen without a fight.

At the Budget, Reeves must introduce a standalone annual wealth tax of 2% on individuals with net assets over £10 million, equalise capital gains tax rates with income tax rates and ensure that the super-rich finally pay up for the investment we desperately need.

Everyone deserves secure housing, stable jobs, and futures we can look forward to.

And we’re sick of politicians telling us there is no money for those basic needs. The money for a better fight for everyone is there - it’s just being hoarded in the hands of the super-rich.

Right now, young people are facing a bleak future: rising bills, unaffordable housing, crumbling schools, hospitals and highstreets - and a rapidly worsening climate crisis.

We’re the first generation set to be worse off than our parents.

BREAKING: 80+ young people are outside the Treasury right now to tell Rachel Reeves: make tax the super-rich PAY UP - or step down.

This Budget, it's time for Reeves to pick a side: us or the billionaires.

For wealth taxes to fund investment in a better future.

100s of young people are signed up to take action to demand wealth taxes next week (thanks @ZakPolanski!)

£40 covers one person’s travel into London to make sure all young people can have their voices heard.

Can you chip in to help us pull this off? 👇🔗
www.gndrising.org/campaigns/fu...

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

Rishi Sunak is as rich as the King. But in 2022, he paid the same tax rate as *a nurse*.

Our tax system is broken.

Right now, multimillionaires like Sunak hoard wealth, while 1/3 kids grow up in poverty. Enough.

We're forcing a reckoning.

Can you support us? www.gndrising.org/campaigns/fu...

But taking on the super-rich driving anti-net zero rhetoric isn't just about messaging. It's about redistributing the wealth they hoard to invest in our schools, homes and climate.

To invest in the Green New Deal.

And that fight starts with wealth taxes at the Autumn Budget.

Climate action must meaningfully improve people's lives.

Good, green jobs. Affordable, warm homes. Clean, publicly-owned energy.

Anything less opens the door for Farage and his billionaire mates to dismantle public consensus for urgent action.

Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energy

Ed Miliband is right - the Green New Deal is the fight this government need to be having.

Tackling the climate crisis must go hand in hand with tackling economic inequality.

To fight the far-right, to fix our economy and to protect our futures. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We're taking action to win wealth taxes. Can you support us? www.gndrising.org/campaigns/fu...