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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The problem with left-wing think tanks
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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LVT is no panacea – but can be one of a number of taxes required on land ownership
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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Why won’t Labour tax wealth?
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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How much are you worth?
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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The rich don’t change their behaviour because of a bit of additional tax
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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Donald Trump is planning to starve the beast
It’s long been a US Republican dream to get rid of the IRS – the US federal tax authority. Now the goal is within their
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It looks like Trump is MADA – Making America Dysfunctional Again
Nothing Trump is saying, doing or enacting makes any sense – so is his real goal to Make America Dysfunctional Again – or MADA? There
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Someone needs to tell Trump that taxes need to be certain
I have questioned the merits of Adam Smith’s four supposed principles of taxation in the past, but would agree with one of them. That one
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