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Boris Johnson To Enact A Continental Telegraph Policy
We around here have been championing a specific tax idea as long as, well, as long as we’ve…
Is the BBC Worth The Money?
The BBC will no longer be free to pensioners, they will soon need to pay the £155 a…
Can We Stop The Idiocy About The Laffer Curve Please?
That working out where the peak of the Laffer Curve is is difficult is entirely true. That it’s…
Exactly 14 People Believe UK Taxes Are Too Low, By Exactly £11,069
There are many people who tell us that taxation in the UK is too low. Just think of…
Ain’t Tax Justice UK Perceptive? Tax Breaks For Millionaires Go To Millionaires!
You’d think that people campaigning about taxation would be able to understand the basics of taxation, no? Although,…
Try Taxing The Rich And They’ll Bugger Off – And Why Shouldn’t They?
One of the amusing little asides in the economics of taxation is that we here in Europe have…
Tax Frozen Libyan Assets To Compensate IRA Victims? Nope, No Way
There’s a suggestion that we should be using the tax collected upon frozen Libyan assets to compensate victims…
Every Chancellor Just Loves Fiscal Drag
A basic truth about taxation is that any and every Chancellor just loves, adores, fiscal drag. Which comes…
70% Marginal Tax Rates Don’t Mean The Rich Pay More Tax
Varied – Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, you know, the brain dead end of the Democrats…
Oh Dear, Rutger Bregman At Davos Is Ignorant Of Hauser’s Law – High Tax Rates Make No Difference
We’ve an historian, Rutger Bregman, sounding off at Davos and there’s a certain problem with his point about…