It doesn't matter if the average family buys it or not, because it means a well off family buys it, which means that they don't buy a home that a slightly less well off family would buy, et… (View Post)

Ummm: that's precisely my point. That widow is using a large house that a family could be using. We'd be (gently) incentivizing her to switch via the tax system. How about we do a deal: no … (View Post)

At the margin, a wealth tax (which would probably end up being levied principally on property) - while giving @HYUFD an aneurism - would almost certainly be mildly positive. If government must raise … (View Post)

Although the various Swiss cantons have successfully used them. (View Post)

I get that: I think those of us born the right side of (around) 1970 have a very different attitude to those born in 1950. (Of course that bunch won the property lottery, so I'm not that sympath… (View Post)