This chart shows really well the path the UK economy and society are on. Higher taxes throttle the UK’s growth, investment and innovation. When the tax take rises faster than the economy, returns on risk-taking shrink, capital becomes scarcer and incentives to build something new weaken. Countless entrepreneurs, founders and high-skill workers are already leaving or planning to. What’s the left’s response? They seriously demand a wealth tax. A wealth tax would accelerate that flight. International experience and recent UK analysis show such a levy is fragile, a small number of departures can erase most of the projected yield, while the long-term damage to investment and dynamism is real. Far from solving the fiscal gap, it risks shrinking the tax base. Spending is exploding. Welfare caseloads have swollen by millions since the mid-2010s, „health“-related claims alone rise by roughly a thousand people every working day, and out-of-work benefit numbers now stand near unbelievable 6.7 million. The UK does not have a revenue problem, tax as a share of GDP is already at multi-decade highs and still climbing. It has a spending problem. Restoring a culture in which most people of working age expect to work for a living, rather than depend on an ever-expanding welfare state, is the only sustainable route back to fiscal health and stronger growth. Why is it deemed inappropriate to expect people to work for life?