Showing posts with label taxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxes. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 January 2019

Quote of the day - tax incidence ain't what you think it is...

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From John Cochrane's blog: The top two things our politicians say they want to encourage are jobs and home ownership. Jobs are perhaps ...
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...
Monday, 7 November 2016

Private bin collections, vulnerable people and the funding of local councils

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I'm going to be very careful here because I don't want you all to think I've an issue with the concept of 'vulnerable' ...
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Monday, 11 April 2016

You want less corruption? You need smaller not bigger government for that.

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**** This is what we must guard against yet is exactly what those who take the 'who will build the roads' line on government. ...
Friday, 11 March 2016

This is it? Seriously? Devolution should be about a whole lot more than buses and new taxes

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**** Some chap from IPPR North has bunged his challenge to 'metro mayors' , you know the powerful folk who'll be elected once ...
Saturday, 26 July 2014

Taxing supermarkets won't save the high street...but it will stop the high street saving itself

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The 'supermarket levy' campaign has been around for a while and, thanks to the thoughtlessness of local politicians in assorted p...
Monday, 5 August 2013

Do they not get it? We don't pay taxes to fund politics...

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**** ...and each time I hear someone suggesting that giving us politicians the ability to dip our fingers into the public purse to fund o...
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Wednesday, 3 July 2013

State funding of politics is wrong...

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**** Unite buying up constituency Labour Parties isn't an argument for state funding. Not a bit. I heard Angela Eagle interrupting A...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

In praise of tax avoidance...

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**** It's my money for heaven's sake. All of it. It doesn't belong to you. It isn't there for you to spend it on co-ordina...
Monday, 11 February 2013

Labour's plan - tax the poor to pay for the care of the wealthy.

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**** Fresh from championing recipients of housing benefit earning over fifty grand, Labour is now planning to be the hero of the relativel...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

On those fat taxes Andy Burnham likes....

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**** Denmark - under their decidedly New Labour leadership - decided to introduce them. And now: The measure, introduced a little over ...
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Monday, 13 August 2012

It's my Party too, isn't it? Why state funding for politics is a mad act of cynicism

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**** I know it's hard down in the Westminster bubble to understand the real world where people are struggling on through the hard time...
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Saturday, 21 July 2012

Time for tax cuts...

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**** ...and not just because the stimulus they'll bring will help economic growth but because they are popular. Yes folks the age of p...
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Friday, 13 July 2012

Taxes and the "living wage"

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**** On Tuesday Bradford Council debated (if that's the right word for a time when we all rather agree with eachother) exploring a ...
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Sunday, 8 July 2012

So what exactly is that money for?

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**** Again the unedifying debate over care for the elderly - characterised by the sons and daughters of comfortable middle-class folk ar...
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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 May 2012

"Pay your taxes..." Or how to annoy a Greek.

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**** As ever, I start with the caveat that I'm not an expert on Greece's economy or how it might resolve its current problems. But...
Thursday, 10 May 2012

Austerity - everywhere but government

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aus·ter·i·ty /ôˈsteritē/ Noun: Sternness or severity of manner or attitude. Extreme ...
Saturday, 21 April 2012

On taxes, morals and practicality

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**** Once again tax has become a matter of moral debate. Rather than asking the sensible and practical questions – “how do we raise the...
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Friday, 30 December 2011

Is London's public transport really so expensive?

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**** London has a fantastic public transport network yet we still get special pleading : Travelling in London is nearly three and a ha...
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