Join Marie and Rasmus for an unfiltered conversation about wealth and financial inequality in Europe. How do billionaires get away with paying almost no tax, while workers are struggling to get by? Why do we accept so much injustice? And what do we do about it?
Don’t know your monetary policy from your macroeconomics? Don’t panic. We’ve imposed a jargon tax to keep the conversation understandable.
Marie and Rasmus debunk the tax myths they hear every day - and talk about their solutions to make society fairer for all. "If we don't solve inequality, we won't solve other issues."
In this episode0:00 welcome
1:44 The importance of fighting wealth inequality
9:27 Should billionaires exist?
12:40 Quick Fire Round
18:24 Debunking
24:33 Fixing things
About our guests
- Marie Toussaint is Member of the European Parliament for Europe Ecologie from France and Vice-President of the Greens/EFA Group. She was trained as a lawyer in international environmental law before elected in the European Parliament.
- Rasmus Andresen is Member of the European Parliament for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen from Germany, from the Schleswig-Holstein region on the German-Danish border. Rasmus is coordinator of the Greens/EFA Group in the Budget Committee.