I suspect that what would happen is that the government would just end up reshuffling what it did with the 95% it did have control over in order to get everything funded. Plus you risk the "donk… (View Post)

I'm not particularly strongly concerned about "principles" in the taxation system. We have to collectively pay for the things we want the state to do, and exactly how we do that is the… (View Post)

As the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington acquired a ship and had it renamed the Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Washington_(1775) He wasn't President at… (View Post)

Some of the early ones (particularly WFA) I thought might perhaps be explained by the Treasury having a shortlist of "things we've wanted to do for ages and which will bring in some money&q… (View Post)

A tonne? That's definitely well over the speed limit... (View Post)