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)

Human beings want to be able to do everything they want, without restriction. But they also want everybody else to be restricted so they can only do things that don't displease them. In other wo… (View Post)