For your average successful Barrister or Advocate, becoming a Judge means a significant drop in income. I suspect that those who are privately educated are more likely to come from relatively well of… (View Post)

So, you're saying that additional taxation makes people work harder than ever before? (View Post)

They have VAT, sure, but if you think the UK subsidiary has taxable profits, then I have a bridge to sell you. (View Post)

There's a lot of truth in that, and I think it's worth going back to the fundamental root of the problem: Home building has externalities. Hence most people simultaneously hold two opposing… (View Post)

People want different things. Clearly lots of people want to live in tiny apartments in Manhattan, because said apartments cost many millions of dollars, while there are pleasant houses with garden w… (View Post)