Personally I think the "basic principle" is that the government taxes where it can practically speaking get its hands on the money and where it can build or rely on a social consensus that … (View Post)

Yes, I expect and am OK to pay more tax (and mostly would simply like it to be done in a way that isn't a massive calculation headache at tax return time...). I think the biggest of Labour's pre elec… (View Post)

Did you know some of them have a "disaster response" mode where they can be set to hand out free drinks to earthquake survivors? (Though TBH I suspect this is more corporate PR and giving p… (View Post)

Agreed with all that (one or two of the items on your list I'm not personally enthusiastic about but I'll take them in exchange for having a government that can actually do stuff effectively). Also f… (View Post)

I was just listening to that bit of the Osborne/Balls podcast this morning too... HS2 has been a "how many ways can you screw this up" smorgasbord of government infrastructure investment fa… (View Post)