A topic that's more an obsession than anything else:
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It feels like we need a movement that highlights bad capitalism.
The recent stamp duty bung is a reward for doing zero work, but the burden of it falls on non home owners too.
Help to Buy, if it fails, the burden of it falls on non home owners, aside from the real benefits of the scheme being property developers.
The recent Times article on Help to Buy, a market that is too big to fail.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/help-to-buy-makes-market-too-big-to-fail-0pslfs7mx
The right push their narratives and thinking because they are allowed to.
The left in the UK seems to be very bad at organising itself against the right wing think tanks and their narratives. In the US they have Nick Hanauer, maybe we just don’t have anyone like that because we’re not far enough down the line, yet..
Richard,
This piece by Tim Morgan, a conservative – with a small c economist makes interesting reading
https://www.tullettprebon.com/announcements/strategyinsights/notes/2010/SIN20120824.pdf
As does this by George Monbiot
https://www.monbiot.com/2019/07/19/private-taxation/
Thanks
And agreed – interesting