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Any taxation creates an industry of tax avoidance. This is not a convincing argument against a specific form of tax....
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You've answered for me again! Of course it would be on a person's total holdings. And to argue that people would look for loopholes isn't an argument against a land tax, it's an argument against any taxation system....
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And are you saying that folks who bought land in totally fair and above board transactions should be forced to sell depending on what nearby land owners do? No. I think you answered your own question when you described your...
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I've always favoured replacing all taxes with a land tax, with tax rates increasing on an exponential scale as size of holding increases, and the base price per unit area dependent on the value of the land. ie: land in...

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Greg. Tingey commented on Cynicism
asuffield @ 464 iTrying to make things better is bad politics. There's no villain, nothing to hate or rant about, and you don't even get to feel confident that it will be successful. That's why UK politicians mostly don't do it, and the ones who do get voted down. NOT EVEN WRONG Think of the (then) tory increase of the franchise under Disraeli & Salisbury, and the public health acts and works of that general period. The 1908-14 Liberal government MOST (but not all of) the internal actions of Labour 1945-51 Thr collaboration between Labour and Tory to get the...
Greg. Tingey commented on Cynicism
Gini coefficients generally and corporate greed ... Um. Remember, first, that almost every Head-Teacher in the country is on "Higher Rate tax", AND is probably past the limit where allowances are cut off ( ~£ 115 000 IIRC). To lots of people, £110 000 a year is loadsamoney, but head-teachers get more than that! (And the stress that goes with it) It's pay over £0.5 million where things start getting rough, and that is where the ladder-pulling is occuring. Meanwhile a lot of people ( ~ 1-2 million ? ) are supposedly really well-off rich snobs who should be taxed...
Greg. Tingey commented on Cynicism
@ 485 UNTIL the guvmint cheats - especially by not raising the bar with inflation. Which is why "higher rate" tax should not cut in, here, until you are on (I think) about £90 000 pa, and you should not be paying tax AT ALL under £12 000 pa (at least) ........
Greg. Tingey commented on Cynicism
Tony Quirke: This would involve, in my case, the guvmint STEALING all my late father's books and maps, and household posessions, and my grandmother's Arts-&-Crafts table & chairs. You're not associated with the bunch of lying theives called "the intergenerational foundation" are you? What you are actually proposing is a variant on the failed theocratic communist system, I'm afraid. And I really don't like it....
Charlie Stross commented on Cynicism
Thanks - nuked!...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
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