I have yet to see any comment in the media about one vital dimension to the new tariffs that Trump is imposing on many countries
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Keir Starmer appears to have been celebrating today because USA has said that it will only charge a 10% tariff on exports from this country
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Tariffs are regressive taxes. Regressive taxes are those where the tax rate decreases as the taxpayer’s income increases. In other words, people with lower incomes pay
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Advertising makes you unhappy with what you have, and even who you are. That’s how it works. So, do we need to better regulate it?
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I wrote the long note that follows because of something that Gary Stevenson had to say in a recent video, coupled with my own reaction
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I was asked by a commentator to summarise my approach to land value taxation yesterday. I asked ChatGPT to summarise my own work on this,
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One of the most difficult questions in politics right now is why Labour will not increase taxes on the wealthy. They could, and they should.
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The exponents of wealth taxes claim that they’re a great way of raising additional tax revenue. They forget just how hard it is for anyone
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As the Guardian has noted this morning: Predictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to
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