2013 July 12

Debate: Is the Fair Tax Mark fair?

Posted on July 12 2013

Economia magazine, the official journal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, has published the following debate this afternoon under the above title, between me
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Not only do the lowest paid pay most tax – they also suffer the highest marginal tax rates, and all economists believe in shirking

Posted on July 12 2013

I have already noted one inconvenient truth that the government has tried to hide on income distribution this morning. Polly Toynbee has addressed another in the Guardian and that
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The ONS income data hides an inconvenient truth – that the rich are getting much richer

Posted on July 12 2013

The Office for National Statistics has been claiming that their recent work on household incomes shows that: There was a fall in income inequality between
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The myth of globally competitive markets has to be challenged

Posted on July 12 2013

I was pleased to see this in the FT this morning: A bipartisan group of senators has taken aim at the largest US banks, introducing
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A tax plan for the US from its almost sole independent voice is pretty close to what we need in the UK too

Posted on July 12 2013

I was intrigued by this, from the web site of the US’s only independent Senator – Bernie Sanders from Vermont. He has said: WASHINGTON, July 10 —
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In conversation with Robert Reich: After Austerity

Posted on July 12 2013

This video is of a meeting at the TUC on 21 May featuring US economist Robert Reich and an interview with him by Faisal Islam. Robert
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