My first tax commission response post proved to be a modest success resulting in quite a few useful comments. This post deals with the next section. The third chapter of the consultation paper (pdf) deals with personal taxation, leaving aside local taxation which is dealt with in the following chapter. Here we deal with the… Continue reading Tax Commission Response 2: Personal Taxation
Details, details…
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the issue, it does make me laugh that the Countryside Alliance are insisting that only “technical legal reasons” prevented the Law Lords from siding with them. What on Earth do they think courts of law are supposed to deliberate on?!
Revolutionaries
I finally got around to reading Simon Titley‘s article in the latest Liberator about Lib Dem “Maoists” and “Trotskyists” (his argument is that there are two mindsets within the Lib Dems that are roughly analagous to two Marxist factions: Maoists for whom campaigning has become an end in itself and Trotskyists who seek to cause… Continue reading Revolutionaries