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Category: Hands Off Our Future!

  • The first nail in the coffin of Local Income Tax?

    I’ve been very good this past month and have managed to keep schtum about the Liberal Democrat Youth and Students’ decision to reject local income tax in preference to land value taxation until after the elections were out of the way. Now I see that the entire motion is up on the ALTER website, I…

  • House price boom should be treated like national debt

    Not much time for blogging at the moment, but I thought I should flag this up now: The National Institute for Economic and Social Research says in its latest journal that the surge in house prices is one “of the major adverse developments affecting the UK economy over the past 20 years”. The thinktank’s director,…

  • Nick Cohen on housing and generational equity

    Critic of Nick Cohen that I tend to be, his contribution this week outlining the problems with the UK housing market is well worth a read.

  • Tossers and John Hutton

    Now that my various major work crises are out of the way for another calendar year, I will hopefully have more time to spend on this blog. Right now, two things leap out regarding Intergenerational Equity. The first is John Hutton’s call today for raising the pension age to 68. I have to say, I’m…

  • Land Value Tax – Towards a Fairer Society

    A guest article by Dr Carole Tongue and Dr Dinos Kyrou, of the Professional Land Reform Group. “All taxation is theft”. The quote from political activist Lester Neil Smith (also a writer of science fiction), has been used by the right wing and those who oppose distribution of wealth for decades. Ironically, those who support…