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'Rachel Reeves should not be deterred from Budget wealth taxes' - LabourList

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  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    26% Somewhat Right

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Critically, it fails to answer the public's most basic question: what's in it for me and my community?
54% : But when we instead look to inheritance tax on farms, the explanation was timid.
54% : Demos research shows how a more courageous stance could take us towards a more optimistic politics.
54% : Our survey revealed how plugging the fiscal hole through taxes on wealth and gambling could actually raise public confidence in the government.
53% : When engaging with the public about inheritance tax at Demos, we heard complaints about people with "accountants and tax advisors to make sure they don't pay it".
52% : But the tractors rumbling down Whitehall after last year's inheritance tax reforms are now etched into the psyche of Government.
49% : Recent analysis shows that 80% of the tax will come from estates over £5 million.
48% : Another Budget is coming, and the Chancellor is eyeing up taxes on wealth.
48% : The National Farmers' Union (NFU) claimed the government had failed to account for the time-lag in its data, or the interaction with business tax relief.
47% : This speaks to the public's deep desire for tax fairness.
42% : It had (critically!) accounted for the time-lag in the data, the interaction with business tax relief, and spoke strictly of estates, not farms.
41% : In applying inheritance tax to pensions, the government made that positive case.
39% : The narrative was weak The government's story about why it needed to raise taxes last year did not cut it.
38% : With a stronger narrative and clearer communication, taxes on wealth would not incite such furious backlash.
31% : In its place, accusations of government insensitivity festered.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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