Showing posts with label taxation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxation. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 December 2018

Are the motives for taxation to blame for poverty?

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Government needs revenue to do the things that governments do. And, without getting into the slightly loopy world of magic money tree belief...
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Monday, 9 October 2017

The case for Devo (Akron, Ohio version) - can we get satisfaction?

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Aaron Renn headlines his commentary "Their Problems are not Your Problems" by which he means that basing our economic policies...
Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Do we obsess too much about land?

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Let's start by agreeing with this statement (and I think the recent Housing White Paper starts to help): Secrecy surrounds much of the ...
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Monday, 2 January 2017

"We need safe spaces..." - how the NHS ducks the big questions

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I can't remember the precise moment or why the subject came up but some point in 2016, in a meeting with NHS folk, something along thes...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

Sucker Taxes - how we're fooled into believing a tax is good for us

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Let's get one thing out of the way. The new impost on fizzy drinks isn't a public health measure it's a tax raising measure....
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Friday, 27 November 2015

There's a case for looking at how we tax housing but it's not the reason for the supply problem

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**** That housing is taxed differently and, for most housing, doesn't get clobbered with capital gains taxes does make housing a more ...
Friday, 13 February 2015

Morals, ethics and the matter of paying taxes

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As is the case with much of our national political discourse, the recent tit-for-tat over taxation is more notable for its sound and fury ...
Sunday, 19 January 2014

Extortion, theft and fairness - the idea of taxation

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**** " Abracadabra, thus we learn the more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, the less y...
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Saturday, 14 December 2013

The BBC really is a joke....

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**** ... a cruel joke on all those poor folk in council houses coughing up for the license fee (and filling up magistrates courts when th...
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Monday, 14 October 2013

Government was always a rent-seeker and it's now the biggest robber baron by far

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**** In broad terms profits are a consequence of imperfections in the market - I know this because it's in the first few chapters of t...
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Monday, 20 May 2013

There is no moral basis for taxation...

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**** This isn't an argument against tax but a simple statement of fact. We pay taxes because we have to and, possibly, because we get ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Things that are true....

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**** From Longrider : There is a word for this and that word is stealing. Because that is what socialists do –  steal other peoples m...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Five things to remember...

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**** From Counting Cats: These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read... 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity ...
Friday, 22 February 2013

More stupidity and ignorance from those folk at Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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**** In an article about the use of words - a po-faced little lecture from the word police - the author, one Gary Rae, says this : That...
Monday, 24 December 2012

Perhaps we should make higher rates of tax voluntary?

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Yesterday evening I made – via the wondrous medium of Twitter – an observation about tax. It was simply that, if someone had a choice b...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

Liberal Democrats? You're kidding - nannying fussbuckets more like

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**** Not content with proposing to rob public sector pensions to build "social" housing, the Liberal Democrats have opened up a...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Come on Christine put your money where your mouth is...

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**** Christine Lagarde called the other day for Greeks to pay their taxes : And I think they should also help themselves collectivel...
Saturday, 26 November 2011

The right isn't stupid - it just disagrees with your stumbling and mumbling

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Apparently “the right” – of which I am a proud member – are stupid : What interests me here is: why should the standard of rightist argu...
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