Underneath your verbiage, you seem to be arguing either for a completely flat rate of tax, or increasing uses of a “user pays” model. I’m happy to debate such ideas, but can’t be arsed playing “pin t… (View Post)

My objection is to the idea that it’s notions of progressiveness (or regressiveness) are meaningless. It’s impossible to debate if the interlocutor won’t accept standard ways of describing things. In… (View Post)

Overall we tax income too highly, and wealth not enough. Good luck with your poll tax. (View Post)

There really isn’t. Not with UK’s demographic. Truss wants to shrink the state to US proportions. If she gets away with it, the effect will be terrifying on the bottom 20%. (View Post)

Yep, so get rid of those. Now what to do with the other 99.999999999999999999999999% of spend? (View Post)