Comments on: Tax Reform: Rolling back the Thatcherite legacy http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/submissions/tax-reform-rolling-back-the-thatcherite-legacy Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:04:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Aron http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/submissions/tax-reform-rolling-back-the-thatcherite-legacy#comment-124210 Aron Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:52:22 +0000 http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/?p=233#comment-124210 thanks very usefull information ! thanks very usefull information !

]]> By: David Chester http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/submissions/tax-reform-rolling-back-the-thatcherite-legacy#comment-122 David Chester Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:25:12 +0000 http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/?p=233#comment-122 The thought of redistributing the burden of income and purchase taxes fills me with the kind of foreboding that all of these Robin-Hood type levelers do. It is plain daylight robbery to take from a person any part of his earnings or to apply a control on a proportion of his spendings have to go to the government. Of course it is necessary to support government through income, but the way to do it is by a better tax reform that any of these smart politicians dare to propose. The answer lays of course in taking something back from what the land-holding population are continuously taking from the general public. Namely the rent on land value. This value is largely the result of taxpayers money that was invested in the surroundings to make them habitable, and the interest on this public investment is surely not for the private land holder to enjoy. TAX TAKINGS NOT MAKINGS, by means of the so called Land-Value Taxation. This Is not strictly a tax but a revenue to be paid back for what opportunity the land owner has taken monopolistically from the citizens of the country in mind. The thought of redistributing the burden of income and purchase taxes fills me with the kind of foreboding that all of these Robin-Hood type levelers do. It is plain daylight robbery to take from a person any part of his earnings or to apply a control on a proportion of his spendings have to go to the government.

Of course it is necessary to support government through income, but the way to do it is by a better tax reform that any of these smart politicians dare to propose. The answer lays of course in taking something back from what the land-holding population are continuously taking from the general public. Namely the rent on land value.

This value is largely the result of taxpayers money that was invested in the surroundings to make them habitable, and the interest on this public investment is surely not for the private land holder to enjoy. TAX TAKINGS NOT MAKINGS, by means of the so called Land-Value Taxation. This Is not strictly a tax but a revenue to be paid back for what opportunity the land owner has taken monopolistically from the citizens of the country in mind.

]]> By: Zoe http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/submissions/tax-reform-rolling-back-the-thatcherite-legacy#comment-72 Zoe Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:14:08 +0000 http://www.howtoliveinthe21stcentury.org.uk/?p=233#comment-72 I think that this is an incredibly important point - the policies that Obama came to power promising were very radical – but were electorally popular. If the case can be made in the US for a fairer tax system – surely it can here. I think that this is an incredibly important point - the policies that Obama came to power promising were very radical – but were electorally popular. If the case can be made in the US for a fairer tax system – surely it can here.

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