Matthew Elliott ✓

@matthew_elliott · UK · joined 06 Dec 2008

President of @TheJobsFndn and member of the House of Lords

19 784Followers

1 853Following

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Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott17 Sep

It’s worrying to read the Government is considering an increase in Capital Gains Tax. Britain needs people willing to take risks, build businesses and invest their capital here. Incentives matter! Increasing CGT will mean fewer jobs. https://t.co/ZZxPGXWuH5 3.5K views · 99 likes · 28 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott16 Sep

It was very welcome to hear the new Lords Treasury Minister reflecting on whether we correctly measure public sector productivity earlier this afternoon. Improving public sector productivity, both by properly measuring it and making sure it matches the decent private sector htt

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Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott16 Sep

A tax on wealth is a tax on jobs. A German study modelled a 0.8% wealth tax and estimated that employment would fall by 2.08% - 882,000 jobs lost. Not only that: it estimated 5.14% lower GDP and 10.25% lower investment in the long run. The U.K. equivalent would be 717,600 lost

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Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott15 Sep

Public sector jobs have been rising every sing quarter for the past two years. At the same time private sector jobs has been consistently falling every single quarter for the past two years. (1/3) https://t.co/F3VhyodqR9

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Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott12 Sep

@matthew_elliott @realartlaffer For every single Labour MP. You cannot tax a country to prosperity. The only thing growing in “every postcode” is the State and its tax take. @andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @Ed_Miliband @LucyMPowell @jreynoldsMP @wesstreeting @St

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Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott11 Sep

@matthew_elliott @realartlaffer I cannot for the life of me comprehend why people can't understand what Laffer explains here. You have to be mulishly stupid not to follow the logic or worse, so ideologically committed to socialism that you would sooner see the poor poorer than t 2.2K views · 89 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott11 Sep

@matthew_elliott @realartlaffer Art Laffer is cool. Sunny disposition of what he theorises - unlike the miserable tax & spend fools. 1.3K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Matthew Elliott ✓@matthew_elliott11 Sep

At the end of a momentous week, here’s a final video, of @realartlaffer explaining the Laffer Curve, as we walked from a meeting in Parliament to a podcast recording at the QEII Centre. It was an honour and privilege to host Dr Laffer in London this week. https://t.co/n3sVRUVIFp

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 683this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.51%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.46%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 683	924	1.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.51%	3.62%	2.35×
Engagement rate	2.46%	1.52%	1.62×

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