Laffer told The Times: “Britain should be great again… and it’s all taxes and regulations that have been just killing you. Calling for abolition, he is reported to have said: “There should be no death tax whatsoever. But if you have a death tax like that, you stop all of us from being productive and working in the labour force and making [young people’s] lives better.” And despite Laffer decrying the notion of a wealth tax as “the most destructive tax”, Burnham is being heavily lobbied to introduce one of those, too. Britain’s high taxes, which are at the highest levels since the end of the Second World War, have been a preoccupation for Laffer for some time.