Jimmy Carr says we should be taxing old people, not the rich

“It's insane that we have a midwit in charge”

The multi-millionaire comedian said that in order for Britain’s economy to get fixed, there should be a “redistribution of wealth”, as he spoke on LBC.

There should be a transfer of wealth “from old to young”, according to Carr.

“It's insane that we had a budget that poor. It's insane that we have a midwit in charge. It's crazy. What we need to do is deal in young people. Yeah, we have a society where we need a redistribution of wealth. And I don't think it necessarily needs to be from rich to poor”, he added.

“I think it needs to be from old to young. I'm not concerned with inequality. I'm concerned with poverty in absolute terms, because that's fixable. Inequality isn’t”.

“Different people have different motivations and abilities. There will always be hierarchies, but you want them to be natural hierarchies”.

“If I was running for office. You know what I'd run on, no taxes in your 20s, because you would incentivise young people to go and say, I'm actually not going to go to university”, he said in the interview.

He also said he wasn’t worried about being cancelled as he has probably told that joke in the past.

“The joke that ends my career, it's already out there. I probably told it 15 years ago, and it's lying in wait on a DVD somewhere, and someone will be offended by it in the future, and there'll be a newspaper story, and you have to be able to wear that as well and right size it to use the therapy term, and go, look, I told a joke, and some people didn't like it.

“There's real problems in the world. Don't worry about it”.