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 episode

0:00 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.

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People in Europe work hard to earn a living and to provide for their families. But ultra-rich tech bros owning digital giants are just raking in record breaking profits, without contributing to society – all with the support from US President Donald Trump. It is time to stand up to them and make them pay (a Digital Services Tax).