Comments on: Cunning stunt? Buy a calculator http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/ crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:24:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jock http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/#comment-144336 Jock Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:49:47 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/#comment-144336 I have no evidence at all! It was just all I could think of and the way he's put two things together - new homes and keeping taxes down or getting big bits of desirable infrastructure down. He can't surely be saying that you get more money just because you have more CT payers and so can keep the tax down because if you have more residents you have higher costs too so the CT would be the same-ish. I have no evidence at all! It was just all I could think of and the way he’s put two things together - new homes and keeping taxes down or getting big bits of desirable infrastructure down. He can’t surely be saying that you get more money just because you have more CT payers and so can keep the tax down because if you have more residents you have higher costs too so the CT would be the same-ish.

]]> By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/#comment-144267 James Graham Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:59:58 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/#comment-144267 On closer inspection, I'm completely baffled what he's talking about. Who is he suggesting should keep the council tax receipts for instance? Am I missing something? I've just watched his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbP3AtnB64" rel="nofollow">content-free speech</a> at Tory conference and am none the wiser. What's missing is any detail about <em>how</em> he proposes to ensure that communities get the gain. If he's a supporter of CLAs, could you point me to where he has argued for them? On the face of it he doesn't appear to be calling for anything very different from existing Section 106 agreements. On closer inspection, I’m completely baffled what he’s talking about. Who is he suggesting should keep the council tax receipts for instance? Am I missing something? I’ve just watched his content-free speech at Tory conference and am none the wiser.

What’s missing is any detail about how he proposes to ensure that communities get the gain. If he’s a supporter of CLAs, could you point me to where he has argued for them?

On the face of it he doesn’t appear to be calling for anything very different from existing Section 106 agreements.

]]> By: Jock http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/#comment-144257 Jock Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:35:32 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2008/01/02/cunning-stunt-buy-a-calculator/#comment-144257 I must say I thought he might actually be promoting Tim Leunig's idea on Community Land Auctions when he was talking about holding down Council Tax - it's one of the things he suggests - that capturing the land value increase would enable councils who chose to to do that. Even to cut CT to zero for a few years as an incentive. I must say I thought he might actually be promoting Tim Leunig’s idea on Community Land Auctions when he was talking about holding down Council Tax - it’s one of the things he suggests - that capturing the land value increase would enable councils who chose to to do that. Even to cut CT to zero for a few years as an incentive.

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