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Join in the fun

Written on 25 August 2010. Posted in General.

The fun to be had is on the Guardian’s Comment is Free discussion site. Opinions are expressed from across the political spectrum. Given the government’s controversial policies, there are several debates a week on taxation and the economy. You can challenge what is said and have your comments tested in discussion.

Tax avoidance – ignoring the obvious

Written on 21 August 2010. Posted in Taxation.

Tax avoidance has came back into the news with “revelations” that some of the government’s advisers have been doing it. The journalists and commentators who have latched on to this have, almost without exception, failed to notice that the tax system is inherently leaky. One might have at least thought that these champions of the people’s rights would have marked the fact...

New Left Project

Written on 19 August 2010. Posted in Marxism.

I came across something called the New Left Project yesterday, which published a couple of articles under the title “Political Philosophy and the Left”. The first of the articles was mostly about the old issue of equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome, suggesting that equality of opportunity was not enough. This one has been argued over for as long as I can remember. Why...

Inflatulation

Written on 17 August 2010. Posted in Banking.

Following publication of the official exchange of monthly letters between the Governor of The Bank of England and The Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the monthly inflation target we have been passed copies of the private correspondence between the two men. Dodgy Dossier cannot guarantee the validity of the letters but they seem sufficiently genuine for us to reprint them here.

Free markets and safety nets

Written on 17 August 2010. Posted in General.

Free markets are not truly free unless land is freely available at the margin. Which is a complex idea and depends on an understanding of Ricardo’s Law of Rent. You cannot have a partially free market any more than one can be partially pregnant. The economy is not a circus stunt In order to show that they are not totally lacking in compassion, advocates of these “free markets”...

Anarcho-Capitalism and its fallacies

Written on 15 August 2010. Posted in Home-Owner-Ism.

Anarcho-Capitalism is rapidly emerging as the great delusion of our time.

Time will improve the propects for LVT

Written on 1 August 2010. Posted in Politics.

The past few decades have been lean ones for LVT because the spread of owner-occupation and aspirations to owner-occupation has led to a political situation where all of the political parties have been scared to advocate LVT for fear of losing votes. But time will change this state of affairs, as was pointed out by a commentator called “imperium” on the Guardian’s “Comment...

Rail improvements to be funded by LVT

Written on 30 July 2010. Posted in Public Transport.

The branch line to Swanage, now run as a working museum and cut off from the main system in 1972, is to be re-connected to the national rail network, allowing regular services from places such as Bournemouth. Network Rail gave a consortium of local councils, rail and tourism groups until the end of July to come up with £3m to fund signalling improvements to allow regular trains to run. Dorset...

A malignant tumour on the body of the economy

Written on 15 July 2010. Posted in Banking.

Financial services are mostly parasitic on the real economy since they produce nothing.

The basic case for LVT

Written on 13 July 2010. Posted in Religion.

The moral, ethical argument: whether there was a formal Creation or not, whether there was a Divine Creator or not, it is indisputable that the Earth was not made by Man. From this it follows that

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